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

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The Dal in the Dalaging

The great state is like the lower reaches of water's downward flow. Some get underneath in order to rule, while others want no more than to tend to it. If they're getting into a lot of arguments with each other, and then that... No, they're not always in balance. But if we take it as sincere, the dal has a preference in the yin yang. It's not the balanced system yet. Very much things arise, but they're going to fall. There does seem to be a real preference. Right, what is preferred? The deep, the mother, the fall. Should we read 61 in that context, or... The head. Sure.

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