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

The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

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What's the Key to Institutionalized Morality?

"It is better to safeguard what you have within than to learn a great deal that so often goes nowhere," he says. "The jar that never empties itself is the same as the bellows that more keeps pumping out." The speech actually has zhong, which is like, if you've seen the character, it's a box with a line in the middle. So this might be another dig at Confucianism.

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