“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.

Heaven is long-enduring and earth continues long. The reason why heaven and earth are able to endure and continue thus long is because they do not live of, or for, themselves. This is how they are able to continue and endure.
— Tao Te Ching, Chapter 7 · Long Enduring by Self-Forgetting (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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