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Lao Tzu is qualified as two different things. Lao Tzu the man and Lao Tzu the book. Lao Tzu the man is who people believe wrote the book which they believe the real name is Li Tan. The book was a short book of poems that held 81 chapters and about 5,000 words. It was the foundational work for philosophical and religious taoism, which was a later production. The books teaching is called the “Tao Te Ching”. Teaching of the Lao Tzu is a multidimensional concept of the tao, tao is defined in multiple different steps as tao to reach the ultimate reality. The principle of Tao is known as being enduring and invariable, this principle is “cycle revision”. This means that “When a thing reaches one extreme, it reverts from it. Reversing is the movement

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