Tác giả (?): 老子 Lão Tử (Laozi) 5th-4th century BCE

Việt dịch: Nhân Tử Nguyễn Văn Thọ, “Đạo đức kinh” https://nhantu.net/TonGiao/DaoDucKinh/DaoDucKinh.htm

English translation: Lionel Giles, 1891, “The Tao Te Ching” (see Ctext link)

Source: https://ctext.org/dao-de-jing

thường chia làm 2 phần: (thượng) đạo kinh (37 thiên) & (hạ) đức kinh (44 thiên)

mục lục:

1. 體道 Thể Đạo (Embodying the Dao)
2. 養身 Dưỡng thân (The nourishment of the person)
3. 安民 An dân (Keeping the people at rest)
4. 無源 Vô nguyên (The fountainless)
5. 虛用 Hư dụng (The use of emptiness)
6. 成象 Thành tượng (The completion of material forms)
7. 韜光 Thao quang (Sheathing the light)
8. 易性 Dị tính (The placid and contented nature)
9. 運夷 Vận di (Fulness and complacency contrary to the Dao)
10. 能為 Năng vi (Possibilities through the Dao)
11. 無用 Vô dụng (The use of what has no substantive existence)
12. 檢欲 Kiểm dục (The repression of the desires)
13. 厭恥 Yếm sỉ (Loathing shame)
14. 贊玄 Tán huyền (The manifestation of the mystery)
15. 顯德 Hiển đức (The exhibition of the qualities of the Dao)
16. 歸根 Qui căn (Returning to the root)
17. 淳風 Thuần phong (The unadulterated influence)
18. 俗薄 Tục bạc (The decay of manners)
19. 還淳 Hoàn thuần (Returning to the unadulterated influence)
20. 異俗 Dị tục (Being different from ordinary men)
21. 虛心 Hư tâm (The empty heart, or the Dao in its operation)
22. 益謙 Ích khiêm (The increase granted to humility)
23. 虛無 Hư vô (Absolute vacancy)
24. 苦恩 Khổ ân (Painful graciousness)
25. 象元 Tuợng nguyên (Representations of the mystery)
26. 重德 Trọng đức (The quality of gravity)
27. 巧用 Xảo dụng (Dexterity in using the Dao)
28. 反朴 Phản phác (Returning to simplicity)
29. 無為 Vô vi (Taking no action)
30. 儉武 Kiệm vu (A caveat against war)
31. 偃武 Yến vũ (Stilling war)
32. 聖德 Thánh đức (The Dao with no name)
33. 辨德 Biện đức (Discriminating between attributes)
34. 任成 Nhiệm thành (The task of achievement)
35. 仁德 Nhân đức (The attribute of benevolence)
36. 微明 Vi minh (Minimising the light)
37. 為政 Vi chính (The exercise of government)
38. 論德 Luận đức (About the attributes of the Dao)
39. 法本 Pháp bản (The origin of the law)
40. 去用 Khử dụng (Dispensing with the use of means)
41. 同異 Đồng dị (Sameness and difference)
42. 道化 Đạo hoá (The transformations of the Dao)
43. 遍用 Biến dụng (The universal use of the action in weakness of the Dao)
44. 知止 Tri chỉ (Cautions)
45. 洪德 Hồng đức (Great or overflowing virtue)
46. 儉欲 Kiệm dục (The moderating of desire or ambition)
47. 鋻遠 Giám viễn (Surveying what is far-off)
48. 忘知 Vong tri (Forgetting knowledge)
49. 任德 Nhiệm đức (The quality of indulgence)
50. 貴生 Quí sinh (The value set on life)
51. 養德 Dưỡng đức (The operation of the Dao in nourishing things)
52. 歸元 Qui nguyên (Returning to the source)
53. 益證 Ích chứng (Increase of evidence)
54. 修觀 Tu quan (The cultivation of the Dao, and the observation of its effects)
55. 玄符 Huyền phù (The mysterious charm)
56. 玄德 Huyền đức (The mysterious excellence)
57. 淳風 Thuần phong (The genuine influence)
58. 順化 Thuận hoá (Transformation according to circumstances)
59. 守道 Thủ đạo (Guarding the Dao)
60. 居位 Cư vị (Occupying the throne)
61. 謙德 Khiêm đức (The attribute of humility)
62. 為道 Vi đạo (Practising the Dao)
63. 思始 Tư thủy (Thinking in the beginning)
64. 守微 Thủ vi (Guarding the minute)
65. 純德 Thuần đức (Pure, unmixed excellence)
66. 後己 Hậu kỷ (Putting one’s self last)
67. 三寶 Tam bảo (3 precious things)
68. 配天 Phối thiên (Matching heaven)
69. 玄用 Huyền dụng (The use of the mysterious Dao)
70. 知難 Tri nan (The difficulty of being rightly known)
71. 知病 Tri bệnh (The disease of knowing)
72. 愛己 Ái kỷ (Loving one’s self)
73. 任為 Nhiệm vi (Allowing men to take their course)
74. 制惑 Chế hoặc (Restraining delusion)
75. 貪損 Tham tổn (How greediness injures)
76. 戒強 Giới cuờng (A warning against trusting in strength)
77. 天道 Thiên đạo (The way of heaven)
78. 任信 Nhiệm tín (Things to be believed)
79. 任契 Nhiệm khế (Adherence to bond or covenant)
80. 獨立 Độc lập (Standing alone)
81. 顯質 Hiển chất (The manifestation of simplicity)