“The Tao that can be told
is not the eternal Tao.”

Learn the Dao

A quiet practice for learning the thing that can’t be known — committing the Tao Te Ching to memory, one line at a time.

Read a chapter. Recite the next line from memory. The app shows you, gently, what you missed — then brings each line back just before you’d forget it.

No streaks. No badges. No notifications. Eighty-one chapters, at the pace of a breath.

The Tao, considered as unchanging, has no name. Though in its primordial simplicity it may be small, the whole world dares not deal with (one embodying) it as a minister. If a feudal prince or the king could guard and hold it, all would spontaneously submit themselves to him.
— Tao Te Ching, Chapter 32 · The Nameless Simplicity (Legge, 1891)

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