[display_podcast] Chapter 36 When you want to constrict something, You must first let it expand; When you want to weaken something, You must first enable it; When you want to eliminate something, You must first allow it; When you want to conquer something, You must first let it be. This is called the Fine Light. [...]
[display_podcast] Chapter 35 Holding on to the great Symbol, The whole world carries on. On and on without doing harm. Being happy at peace, Enjoying greatly the music and food, Travelers stop by. When the Tao is spoken forth plainly It has no flavor at all. Look, but that is not sufficient for seeing. Listen, [...]
[display_podcast] Chapter 34 As the Tao is all-pervading, It operates on both the left and the right. Success is consequent to all affairs. It does not proclaim its own existence. All things return. Yet there is no claim of ownership, So it is forever desireless. This can be called small. All things return. Yet there [...]
[display_podcast] Chapter 33 To know others is to be knowledgeable, To know oneself is enlightenment; To master others is to have strength, To master oneself is to be powerful. To know what is sufficient is to be rich. To act with determination is to have will. Not to lose one’s substance is to endure. To [...]
[display_podcast] Chapter 32 Tao is eternally nameless. Though simplicity is small, The world cannot treat it as subservient. If lords and rulers can hold on to it, Everything becomes self-sufficient. Heaven and earth combine and allow sweet dew. Without rules, people will naturally become equal. At the outset, the rule must be expressed. Once it [...]
[display_podcast] Chapter 31 The army is the mechanism of bad luck. The elements of the world may oppose. So those who have ambitions cannot rest. Therefore the nobleman takes his place on the left side, And the commander on the right side. So the army is not the nobleman’s weapon. As a mechanism of bad [...]
