[display_podcast] Chapter 48 Having a zest for learning yields an increase day by day. Hearing the Tao brings a loss day by day. Losing more and more until inaction results. Inaction results, yet everything is done. Managing the world always involves nonengagement. As soon as there is engagement, there is never enough of it to [...]
[display_podcast] Chapter 47 In order to know the world, do not step outside the door. In order to know the Tao of heaven, do not peer through the window. The further out you go, the less you know. So the sage knows without moving, identifies without seeing, accomplishes without acting.
[display_podcast] Chapter 46 When there is Tao in the world, work horses are used to fertilize the land. Without Tao in the world, the war horse flourishes in the countryside. There is no crime greater than fostering desire. There is no disaster greater than not knowing when there is enough. There is no fault greater [...]
[display_podcast] Chapter 45 Grand perfection seems lacking, yet its use is never exhausted. Grand fullness seems empty, yet its use never comes to an end. Grand straightforwardness seems bent. Grand skill seems clumsy. Grand surplus seems deficient. Activity overcomes cold. Stillness overcomes heat. Peace and tranquility can be the measure of the world. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Two [...]
[display_podcast] Chapter 44 Which is more cherished, the name or the body? Which is worth more, the body or possessions? Which is more beneficial, to gain or to lose? Extreme fondness is necessarily very costly. The more you cling to, the more you lose. So knowing what is sufficient averts disgrace. Knowing when to stop [...]
[display_podcast] Chapter 43 What is softest in the world penetrates what is hardest in the world. Nonbeing enters where there is no room. From this I know the riches of nonaction. Wordless teaching and the riches of nonaction is matched by very little in the world.
