“The Tao that can be told
is not the eternal Tao.”
Learn the Dao
Twenty-five centuries ago someone wrote down what they had learned about living without forcing anything. It is eighty-one short chapters, and people have carried it around ever since.
Abstaining from speech marks him who is obeying the spontaneity of his nature. A violent wind does not last for a whole morning; a sudden rain does not last for the whole day. To whom is it that these (two) things are owing?
Start by just reading one. If a line stays with you, we’ll help you keep it — you read, you say the next line back from memory, and it’s ready for you again around when it would start to slip.
No streaks. No badges. Nothing you didn’t ask for. Eighty-one chapters, at the pace of a breath.
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