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Ep. 312: The Dao De Jing on Virtue (Part One)

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The Douching and the Dow Section

Do we want to start with number seven, which is the earliest one in the text that we haven't covered? Seven is maybe important because of the hub and wheel, which a lot can be said. Although starting with 37 is not a bad idea because that was in one of the recovered texts, the beginning of the book. Actually starts with the de section and then has the Dow section at the end to start with that would also be good. Yeah, my Hendrix translation calls it the douching and the douch stitching. Making a weird Roger Ames translation, making that the first one is too misleading. We should just start with one of the others.

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