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Tao Te Ching - Dao De Jing

·1 hr 30 min·5 clips
The journey of a thousand li begins with a single step.
This is a narrated reading of the Tao Te Ching, an ancient Chinese philosophical text attributed to Lao Tse. The episode presents the core teachings on the Tao (The Way), emphasizing principles like effortless action, humility, simplicity, and harmony with nature through poetic, paradoxical verses.

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A spare, steady reading of Tao as mystery, contrast, and disciplined ease.

This reading treats Part 1 of Tao Te Ching / Dao De Jing as a careful meditation on what cannot be named and why that limits ordinary seeing. It keeps returning to the same center: the Tao stands beyond naming, desire narrows perception, opposites define one another, and the…

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You want a calm route into the Tao, where non-striving, balance, and opposites quietly explain each other.

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