The Tao · The way of effortless action, when to stop pushing, when to begin.

Two thousand five hundred years before "burnout" became a word, Lao Tzu was writing about the cost of forcing. The Tao Te Ching, 81 short verses, is the most translated text in human history after the Bible, and the cleanest counter to modern striving still on offer. This page is its working bench. Not a translation; a way to use it.