“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 sage has no invariable mind of his own; he makes the mind of the people his mind. To those who are good (to me), I am good; and to those who are not good (to me), I am also good;--and thus (all) get to be good. To those who are sincere (with me), I am sincere; and to those who are not sincere (with me), I am also sincere;--and thus (all) get to be sincere.
— Tao Te Ching, Chapter 49 · The Sage Has No Fixed Mind (Legge, 1891)

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