Dào Dé Jing en Español

Tao Te Ching en Español

Dao De Jing (Tao Te Ching) in Spanish 

Daodejing 81 Website

Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu
Dao De Jing by Laozi
Concordance, Selected Translations, Bibliography, Commentaries

Compilation and Indexing by Michael P. Garofalo

For Each of the 81 Chapters:

25 English Translations
5 Spanish Translations
Chinese Characters
Pinyin & Wade-Giles
Concordance
Bibliography & Links
Directory
Commentary
Chapter Indexes
 

Daodejing 81 Website

Concordance to the Tao Te Ching

Daodejing 81 Website

English Language Versions of the Tao Te Ching - Translator's Index

Spanish Language Versions of the Dao De Jing

Chapter Index to the Tao Te Ching

Thematic Index to the Tao Te Ching

Ripening Peaches: Taoist Studies and Practices

Taoism: A Bibliography

An Old Philosopher's Notebooks

Cloud Hands Blog Posts About the Daodejing

How to Live a Good Life: Advice from Wise Persons

Tao Te Ching  Chapter Number Index Standard Traditional Chapter Arrangement of the Tao Te ChingChapter Order in Wang Bi's Daodejing Commentary in 246 CE Chart by Mike Garofalo Subject Index
1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20
21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30
31	32	33	34	35	36	37	38	39	40
41	42	43	44	45	46	47	48	49	50
51	52	53	54	55	56	57	58	59	60
61	62	63	64	65	66	67	68	69	70
71	72	73	74	75	76	77	78	79	80
81

Daodejing 81 Website 

A typical webpage created by Mike Garofalo for each one of the 81 Chapters (Verses, Sections) of the Tao Te Ching (Daodejing) by Lao Tzu (Laozi) includes 25 or more different English language translations or interpolations for that Chapter, 5 or more Spanish language translations for that Chapter, the Chinese characters for that Chapter, the Wade-Giles and Hanyu Pinyin transliterations (Romanization) of the Mandarin Chinese words for that Chapter, and 2 German and 1 French translation of that Chapter.

Each webpage for each one of the 81 Chapters of the Tao Te Ching includes extensive indexing by key words, phrases, and terms for that Chapter in English, Spanish, and the Wade-Giles Romanization. 

An electronic Concordance for all 81 Chapters of the Tao Te Ching is provided.

Each webpage on a Chapter of the Daodejing includes recommended reading in books and websites, a detailed bibliography, some commentary, research leads, translation sources, a Google Translate drop down menu, and other resources for that Chapter. 


Chapter 7, Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu

Concordance for the Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu

Daodejing 81 Website

English Language Daodejing Translators' Source Index

Spanish Language Daodejing Translators' Source Index

Ripening Peaches: Taoist Studies and Practices

Taoism: A Selected Reading List

One Old Daoist Druid's Final Journey

How to Live a Good Life: Advice from Wise Persons

Daodejing Chapter 28 Commentary by Bo Chen

Tao Te Ching, Chapter 28

The following commentary was sent to me by Bo Chen, apromise.andrew@gmail.com, on 1/24/2021.

"《道德经》  第二十八章    

 

Reading with Chinese pronunciation:

 

zhī qí xióng，shǒu qí cí，wèi tiān xià xī。

wèi tiān xià xī，cháng dé bù lí。cháng dé bù lí，fù guī yú yīng ér。

zhī qí bái，shǒu qí hēi，wèi tiān xià shì。

wèi tiān xià shì，cháng dé bù tè。cháng dé bù tè，fù guī yú wú jí。

zhī qí róng，shǒu qí rǔ，wèi tiān xià gǔ。

wèi tiān xià gǔ, cháng dé nǎi zú，fù guī yú pǔ。

pǔ sàn zé wèi qì，shèng rén yòng zhī，zé wèi guān zhǎng，gù dà zhì bù gē。

Chinese original text:

 

知其雄，守其雌，为天下谿。
为天下谿，常德不离，复归于婴儿。
知其白，守其黑，为天下式。
为天下式，常德不忒，复归于无极。
知其荣，守其辱，为天下谷。
为天下谷，常德乃足，复归于朴。
朴散则为器，圣人用之，则为官长，故大制不割。

 

Chinese Translation:

 

知道雄强的力量

却持守住卑微地位

让自己处于柔弱谦逊

柔弱谦逊那么德行日盛

最终回归于婴儿般的状态

知道是非分明

但是却持守住包容

作为天下的榜样

最终回归到无极的状态

知道什么是显达荣耀

但是却不张扬甘于保持谦逊低调

好像回归到山谷般的状态

这样的行为德行越发醇厚

回归到质朴无华的状态

这种朴质发扬光大就是功德

圣人采用这种原则和方法就成为万民的楷模

所以看上去宏大抽象

但是使用起来无所不包并且效果让人难以置信

 

 

English translation

Tao Te Ching    Chapter 28 

 

Aware of the advantage of great power and strong strength

Retain this competitiveness but act with weakness and modesty

The feeling for humble behavior just like peaceful stream

More and more gentle finally approach to infant’s breath

Aware of the benefit of obvious persuasion and clear justice

Maintain the kindness but tolerate other’s mistakes and selfishness

The mind for tolerant treatment just like patterns all over the country

More and more tolerant finally return to a limitless boundary

Aware of the glory of privileged position and prominent reputation

Keep the admirable honor but respect the lowest class of citizens equally

The morality for respect just like deep and profound valley

More and more modesty finally go back to a simple and unadorned origin

Saint inherits above principles and act as the model for all the people

The guidelines seem broad and abstract with no clear logic restrictions

But once think deeply and grasp the essence of life philosophy

Nothing will be omissive and practical effects will be incredibly perfect.

 

Comments and interpretation about Chapter 28

 

Chapter 28 mainly emphasizes how people should properly make the responses for the traditional values about external indicators, such as keep modesty, gentle and tolerance, because these principals will bring harmonious and wonderful relationships, and harmony is one important guideline to seek for Taoism.  The writer Lao Tzu clearly understood how people easily be induced to show their strength, square accounts in every detail, enjoy superficial fame.  Of course, these actions will make contradictions and will be far away from the Tao, so Lao Tzu reminds people don’t be to pragmatic and materialistic too much, and pay attention to Taoism and ideal life philosophy.  This is an interesting topic, you get more from life and don’t dedicate, you will be rich but your life will lack of spiritual and real life value, and if you tend to serve the society and provide the assistance for others, you will be happy and excited, of course, maybe you will not to take care of wealth and reputation.  Please keep the balance between materialism and spiritualism to achieve the ideal situation, and this is wonderful life style approach to Taoism.  In text of Chapter 28, Lao Tzu lists three comparisons to illustrate, we can deduce various other relative concepts should also be the same principal as above.  Lao Tzu only provide one method to seek for Taoism, not absolute detailed answer, this is a relativity theory. So every person has different judgments and understanding, this is why Tao Te Ching is profound and magical for most people."

The above commentary was sent to me by Bo Chen, apromise.andrew@gmail.com, on 1/24/2021.

 

A typical webpage created by Mike Garofalo for each one of the 81 Chapters (Verses, Sections) of the Tao Te Ching (Daodejing) by Lao Tzu (Laozi) includes over 25 different English language translations or interpolations for that Chapter, 5 Spanish language translations for that Chapter, the Chinese characters for that Chapter, the Wade-Giles and Hanyu Pinyin transliterations (Romanization) of the Mandarin Chinese words for that Chapter, and 2 German and 1 French translation of that Chapter.  Each webpage for each one of the 81 Chapters of the Tao Te Ching includes extensive indexing by key words, phrases, and terms for that Chapter in English, Spanish, and the Wade-Giles Romanization.  Each webpage on a Chapter of the Daodejing includes recommended reading in books and websites, a detailed bibliography, some commentary, research leads, translation sources, a Google Translate drop down menu, and other resources for that Chapter.   

Chapter 28, Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu

Chapter and Thematic Index (Concordance) to the Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu

English Language Daodejing Translators' Source Index

Spanish Language Daodejing Translators' Source Index

Ripening Peaches: Taoist Studies and Practices

Taoism: A Selected Reading List

One Old Daoist Druid's Final Journey  

Don't Stop Thinking About Tomorrow

 

Fleetwood Mac, 1977

"If you wake up and don't want to smile
If it takes just a little while
Open your eyes and look at the day
You'll see things in a different way

Don't stop thinking about tomorrow
Don't stop, it'll soon be here
It'll be better than before
Yesterday's gone, yesterday's gone."

54th Wedding Anniversity

 Blanche Karen Eubanks and Michael P. Garofalo were married in 1967 in Huntington Park, California.
We raised two children, Alicia and Michael.
We have lived in Southern California, Northern California, and now Washington State.

We have been a good team, worked hard, enjoyed life, and loved each other and many others.

Lovely to See You Again My Friend

 Music from the Moody Blues, 1969.

"A wonderful day for passing my way.
Knock and my door and even the score
With your eyes.

Lovely to see you again my friend.
Walk along with me to the next bend.

Dark cloud of fear is blowing away.
Now that you're hear, you're going to stay
'cause it's

Lovely to see you again my friend.
Walk along with me to the next bend.

Tells us what you've seen in faraway forgotten lands.
Where empires have turned back to sand.

Wonderful day for passing my way.
Knock and my door and even the score
With your eyes.

Lovely to see you again my friend.
Walk along with me to the next bend."




 

Winter Gardening in Vancouver WA

 Gardening Chores in Vancouver, Washington

January – April

Washington State University in Vancouver
Master Gardener WSU Clark County
https://extension.wsu.edu/clark/gardening-tasks/#month

  

January

• Check stored bulbs and dahlia tubers. Discard the soft or rotted ones. Sprinkling with water will plump up shriveled tubers.
• Water overwintering geraniums and fuchsias just enough to keep them alive.
• Spray cherry trees for bacterial canker. Apply dormant spray to apples and pears.
• Apply a dormant spray of lime sulfur on roses.

February

• When soil becomes workable, prepare vegetable gardens for planting.
• Plant peas in well-drained soil.
• Prune fruit trees when the temperature is above freezing.
• On mild days, plant bare-root roses, berries, grapes, kiwis, and fruit trees.
• Pull mulch partly away from emerging bulbs and perennials. In mid-month, hunt hidden slugs.
• Start broccoli, cabbage and cauliflower indoors.

March

• Prune and fertilize summer blooming clematis.
• Divide perennials that will bloom after mid-June.
• Trim heather and heaths after blooming, just back to below the point where blooms form.
• Fertilize established roses when they begin to leaf out.
• Bring over-wintering fuchsias and geraniums out of dormancy.  If needed, put fuchsias in larger pots with fresh soil. Check for circling or damaged roots.
• Apply dormant spray on cane berries before or just after buds swell.
• Spray peaches and nectarines with lime sulfur to control peach leaf curl.
• Control slugs around newly planted seedlings.
• Fertilize blueberries, blackberries and raspberries with 5-10-10 fertilizer.

April

• Remove and destroy tent caterpillar larvae and nests.
• Knock aphids off roses with a stream of water.
• Set out transplants of hardy annuals such as primroses, dusty miller and pansies. Direct sow snapdragons, sweet alyssum, cornflower, clarkia, calendula, larkspur, and Shirley poppy.
• Plant dahlias, ranunculus, gladiolus, iris and cannas.
• Dispose of fallen camellia blossoms to control the spread of botrytis or petal blight.
• Control brown rot on nectarines, apricots, peaches and cherries.
• Control spittlebugs, aphids and slugs on strawberries.
• Protect dogwood trees from anthracnose.
• Use floating row covers to protect plants in the cabbage family from egg laying by cabbage root maggot flies.

 

 

Birthday for Michael P. Garofalo

Today is my 75th birthday.  

My parents were Bertha June (1921-1994) and Michael James Garofalo (1916-1997).  My two brothers were Paul and Phillip.  

My parents and I in 1947

I grew up in East Los Angeles and attended St. Alphonsus Catholic Grammar School, Cantwell Catholic High School (Honors Diploma), California State University at Los Angeles (B.A. Philosophy), and the University of Southern California (M.S. Library Science).  

I worked for the City of Commerce Public Library System from 1963-1969.  

Blanche Karen Eubanks and I were married in 1967.  We we celebrate our 54 wedding anniversary this week in 2021.  

Karen and I in 1970
Biloxi, Mississippi

Served in the United States Air Force, Air Training Command, from 1969-1973.  Honorably discharged as a Staff Sergeant.  

I worked for the County of Los Angeles Public Library System from 1974 to 1998.  I retired as a Library Administrator, and Regional Administrator for the East Region in the San Gabriel Valley.  I worked at offices in the Compton library, Bell Gardens library, East Los Angeles library, Norwalk library, Huntington Park library, and West Covina library.  

We lived in Bell Gardens and Hacienda Heights - both in the East Los Angeles  metropolitan area.  

Karen and I, and our families and community, raised two children, Alicia June and Michael Delmer.  We now have two grandchildren, Katelyn and Makenna. 

My daughter and I in 1977

Our family around 1990

I started creating websites in 1995, and a blog in 2005.       

Karen and I lived in Red Bluff, North Sacramento Valley, California, from 1998-2017, in a rural area on a five acre parcel.  We both worked part-time for school districts.  I was the Technology and Media Service Supervisor and District Librarian for the Corning Union Elementary School District; and Karen was a Special Education Instructional Aide.  

Yosemite, North Dome, 2005




Family, 2007

Karen in the fruit tree orchard in Red Bluff, 2015
We planted over 160 trees and shrubs on this property.  

Karen retired on June 14, 2014, after working part-time since 1998 as a Special Education Instructional Assistant for the Tehama County Department of Education in Red Bluff, California.  

Mike retired on July 1, 2016, after working part-time since 1998 as the Technology and Media Services Supervisor for the Corning Union Elementary School District in Corning, California.  

I taught yoga, taijiquan, qigong, pilates, and other fitness classes at the Tehama Family Fitness Center in Red Bluff from 2002-2016.

In 2017, we moved to Vancouver, Washington.  We are now both retired.  

Family in Oregon in 2013

Vancouver, Washington, 2017

I am very fortunate in having fairly good health, a positive attitude, and stamina for work and play for all of my long life.  I was fortunate in being able to be productively employed for 54 years, and earning good medical insurance for Karen and I.  

I am a philosopher by inclination and practice.  My biography.

I have been active with various sports, physical conditioning programs, weightlifting, walking, fitness, Taijiquan, Yoga, hiking, etc., during my entire healthy long life.  

I am hoping that 2021 brings an end to the pandemic, work for all, and peace.  

That about sums it up!