“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.

My words are very easy to know, and very easy to practise; but there is no one in the world who is able to know and able to practise them. There is an originating and all-comprehending (principle) in my words, and an authoritative law for the things (which I enforce). It is because they do not know these, that men do not know me.
— Tao Te Ching, Chapter 70 · Easy Words, Rarely Practised (Legge, 1891)

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