Tao Te Ching - Chapter 2
Channel: The Headington Shark House
Date: 2023-05-24

The Tao Te Ching, or Dao De Jing, or Book of the Way, by Lao Tzu (or Laozi), is a classic Taoist text, translated into English by the Wikisource project, and read aloud by the text to speech artificial intelligence by ElevenAI.

This is chapter 2 of that work.

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Translation:Tao_Te_Ching
https://beta.elevenlabs.io

Tao Te Ching, or Laozi, is a Chinese classic text. According to tradition, it was written around 6th century BC by the sage Laozi, a record-keeper at the Zhou dynasty court, by whose name the text is known in China. The text's true authorship and date of composition or compilation are still debated, although the oldest excavated text dates back to the late 4th century BC.

I used the wiki translation, but the Stephen Mitchell translation is far more beautiful in my opinion. If you like this at all, I would highly recommend seeking that out in physical form. In video form, it can be found here: https://youtube.com/UxEvRoAaYBM

The Headington Shark House, pictured, is a surreal anti-war, anti-censorship protest artwork in Oxford, England, and more information can be found at:

https://www.headingtonshark.com
https://www.airbnb.co.uk/rooms/31345904

The translation of the Tao Te Ching was released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic license, which allows free use, distribution, and creation of derivatives, so long as the license is unchanged and clearly noted, and the original author is attributed—and if you alter, transform, or build upon this work, you may distribute the resulting work only under the same license as this one: 

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/