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

The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

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Wu Wei Coercion in the Lao Tso Translation

Once you start to insist upon the good, because it doesn't align with the natural way of process, this is like a tactic cutting up a certain interpretation. The outcomes are bad. Another way is just to think, and this I think verse more to chapter 12, is that once you start cutting things up, you just become blind to what moral possibilities in front of you. What could be beautiful once you start to define the beautiful, you actually separate yourself from the beautiful.

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