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Announcements 8/25/08
1. For those of you who are enjoying the taooftheday.com podcasts, I have a special new audiobook offer. The website and podcast are currently at around chapter fifty. For those of you who are impatient to finish, you’ll like this:
“The Tao- Remastered” This is a three CD set featuring the entire Tao Te Ching, [...]
The Tao Remastered
The entire Tao Te Ching, by Lao Tse. Translated by James Legge. Read by Brian Schell.
This three CD set contains the entire Tao on two regular audio CDs, playable in all standard CD players. The third CD-ROM contains the entire Tao in MP3 format ready for loading into your iPod or other music [...]
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Chapter Fifty
Men come forth and live; they enter again and die.
Of every ten, three are ministers of life to themselves; and three are ministers of death.
There are also three in every ten whose aim is to live, but whose movements tend to the land or place of death. And for what reason? Because of [...]
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Chapter Forty-Nine
The sage has no invariable mind of his own; he makes the mind
of the people his mind.
To those who are good to me, I am good; and to those who are not good to me, I am also good;–and thus all get to be good. To those who are sincere with me, I [...]
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Chapter Forty-Eight
He who devotes himself to learning seeks from day to day to increase his knowledge; he who devotes himself to the Tao seeks from day to day to diminish his doing.
He diminishes it and again diminishes it, till he arrives at doing nothing on purpose. Having arrived at this point of non-action, there [...]
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Chapter Forty-Seven
Without going outside his door, one understands all that takes place under the sky; without looking out from his window, one sees the Tao of Heaven. The farther that one goes out from himself, the less he knows.
Therefore the sages got their knowledge without traveling; gave their right names to things without seeing [...]
