“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.
The people do not fear death; to what purpose is it to (try to) frighten them with death? If the people were always in awe of death, and I could always seize those who do wrong, and put them to death, who would dare to do wrong?
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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