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I have the physical book, translated by Gia-Fu Feng & Jane English.

Every night, I read one new passage — then every morning, I read that same passage again.

Presuming you miss a few readings, you can then complete the entire Tao in less than three months (or: four times per year, cyclically).

This gives you time to digest each passage, be it in dreams or daytime. Nobody will ever fully understand these texts.

>#23 — "he who does not trust enough will not be trusted"

For my next read-through, I will paste Ursula's words alongside Ms. English's.

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If you have not read The Dispossessed, this is a great intro to LaGuin's perspectiveS.



Does the book describes binary mathematics (via the ying and yang) and how it can be used to describe basically all complexity and complex interactions ? Have you read that bit? I heard Alan Watts mention it and I thought it was interesting.


From Tao #42

>The ten thousand things carry yin and embrace yang.

>They achieve harmony by combining these forces.

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>For one gains by losing.

>And loses by gaining.

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From Tao #28

>Knowing light and staying dark, be a pattern to the world.

>Being the world's pattern of eternal unerring power is to go back again to boundlessness.




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