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Tao Te Ching (Penguin Great Ideas)
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The Tao Te Ching definitely shines without dazzling. It fits in for me with Meditations by Marcus Aurelius, The Wisdom Books: Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes, and the Sermon on the Mount. Books of universal wisdom, truth, and peace that should be read again and again and again. Straightforward words often do sound paradoxical.
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Keith
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Nov 10, 2011 07:10PM
Oh, but the Tao that can be spoken is not the true Tao!
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I know, but don't understand; yet understand, but don't know. Me thinks Lau Tzu was G.K. Chesterton in a previous (probably thinner) life. Is it wrong of me to want to find a secret cache of Taoist writings about a Chinese hermit who solves crimes through a mixture of folk and philosophical Taoism? He both solves the crime and shows that there was no crime at all.
I think you just created a whole new series! Assuming, of course, that Borges didn't get there first...
What do you think of these tag lines or tropes:1. Knowing yourself is half the battle.
2. The more you know, the less you understand.
3. You just got learned, and it was beautiful.
4. And Now You Tao!
5. Beautiful rules are not meaningful, and meaningful rules are not beautiful. Stay in school, beautiful.
