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Ep. 311: Understanding the Dao De Jing (Part Two)

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Is Beauty or Ugly?

I think it has both. I don't know could be beauty as opposed. Actually it could both. It's like the second line is three characters just to get a sense of how condensed these has so then it is yeah, it is ugly basically. So the world all under heaven recognizes the beautiful as beautiful that is ugly. When all the world recognize good as good, this in itself is evil. The more you insist upon beauty, the more you define things as ugly. And then this doesn't actually map on to process. You know, long and short said each other off high and low complete each other. That's clear than the two lines about beauty and ugliness.

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