A contemporary of his mentor, Confucius, Lao Tzu is one of China's most revered philosophers and is the father of the School of Tao. Though not much is known of his early life and some scholars go so far as to believe he never existed, Lao Tzu taught his pupils that the "way", or "Tao of life" was to maintain one's ground but to bend when required, like the reed in the wind. He taught non-aggression as a way of life. The most far reaching work on Tao, the Tao te ching collection, is believed to have taken up to four centuries to write and was completed around the 4th century B.C. Lao T…