Lao Tzu is an exceptionally refined example of the classic Chineselanguage, with a meaning at once both profoundly mysterious andexpansive. It is difficult to clearly grasp Lao Tzu’s original1 intentionand even more impossible to reach consensus with other interpreters.From a historic point of view, huge differences have been notedbetween one interpretation and the next, each tinted with theindividual interpreter’s specific worldview, mostly from theperspectives of Confucianism, Buddhism, Legalism, Militarism,Yin and Yang, Neo-Confucianism, Marxism, and so on.
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