Tao de Jing. Book on the way and virtue

Here is a unique monument of human thought, which underlies Taoism - the traditional Chinese teaching about the “path of things”, which includes elements of religion and philosophy.
“Book on the Way and Life” occupies after the Bible the second place in the world in the number of foreign translations. The origin of this book and the personality of its author were shrouded in many legends: Lao Tzu created this work more than two thousand years ago, but his treatise still remains an inexhaustible source of wisdom and reflection on being, justice, as well as the nature of good and evil. The main secret of Lao Tzu seems to be paradoxical: in order to become yourself, you need to eliminate your private "I" in order to have power, you need not to desire it, etc. And the secret of reading is to comprehend the inner depth of the meaning that wisdom inspires, revealing in every judgment a different and opposite meaning