“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.

May not the Way (or Tao) of Heaven be compared to the (method of) bending a bow? The (part of the bow) which was high is brought low, and what was low is raised up.
— Tao Te Ching, Chapter 77 · The Bow of Heaven (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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