“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.

There is nothing in the world more soft and weak than water, and yet for attacking things that are firm and strong there is nothing that can take precedence of it;--for there is nothing (so effectual) for which it can be changed. Every one in the world knows that the soft overcomes the hard, and the weak the strong, but no one is able to carry it out in practice.
— Tao Te Ching, Chapter 78 · Water's Hidden Strength (Legge, 1891)

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