“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.
Man at his birth is supple and weak; at his death, firm and strong. (So it is with) all things. Trees and plants, in their early growth, are soft and brittle; at their death, dry and withered.
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’s ready for you again around when it would start to slip.
No streaks. No badges. Nothing you didn’t ask for. Eighty-one chapters, at the pace of a breath.
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