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Ep. 1 - Following the Taoist Way
Alan Watts Being in the Way
The Philosophy of the Doo, or the Way as It Is in Chinese
Dao originated as a form of folk wisdom, or what we might describe as kitchen table wisdom. In early rural culture in china, it was observed that there were better and worse approaches to things. These are typically described as splitting wood with the grain, or even putting up a sail instead of rowing. And so finally, after probably many generations of existing as an oral tradition, these were codified, theoretically, as amanual for the rulers.
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