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December 6th, 2008 | Category: Announcement | Leave a comment

[display_podcast] Chapter 53 Through discrimination, I have the knowledge to walk in the great Tao. The only fear is what is other than that. The great Tao is quite smooth, yet people prefer a short-cut. The court is so busy legislating that the fields go uncultivated and granaries are all empty. They wear the magnificent [...]

December 5th, 2008 | Category: Daily Tao | Leave a comment

[display_podcast] Chapter 52 The world begins with the mother as its source. When you have the mother, you know the son. When you know the son, return to preserve the mother. Although the body dies, there is no harm. By closing your mouth and shutting the door, there would be no wearing down of life. [...]

December 4th, 2008 | Category: Daily Tao | Leave a comment

[display_podcast] Chapter 51 Tao enlivens. Action nourishes. Matter forms. Mechanism completes. For that reason, all things worship Tao and exalt Action. The worship of Tao and exaltation of Action are not conferred, but always arise naturally. Tao enlivens and nourishes, develops and cultivates, integrates and completes, raises and sustains. It enlivens without possessing. It acts [...]

December 3rd, 2008 | Category: Daily Tao | Leave a comment

[display_podcast] Chapter 50 We live, we die. The companions of life are three and ten. The companions of death are three and ten. That people live their active life necessarily leading to the ground of death is three and ten. Why so? It is the nature of life itself. As a matter of fact, I [...]

December 2nd, 2008 | Category: Daily Tao | Leave a comment