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

The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

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The Taoist's Idea of Non-Action

Wu Wei means not action, but no one wants to really read it like that unless you have acquired a kind of spiritual force and therefore you don't need to act. But I think it is doing very small things that aren't noticed. So my newt things, I think, is kind of the essence of this passage. And you also have here, on the third-last line, slow to speak idea,. So we even have the sage speaking, but very carefully.

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