“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.

If I were suddenly to become known, and (put into a position to) conduct (a government) according to the Great Tao, what I should be most afraid of would be a boastful display.
— Tao Te Ching, Chapter 53 · Robbers and Boasters (Legge, 1891)

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 comes round again right before you’d have forgotten.

No streaks. No badges. Nothing you didn’t ask for. Eighty-one chapters, at the pace of a breath.

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