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186: The Tao Te Ching

Classical Stuff You Should Know

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Is That What He's Getting At?

Once beautiful is recognized as beautiful, it becomes ugly. If you know virtue by analyzing it, you make it evil. There's others apart where he talks about knowledge and how that puffs up. This is one of the texts where yinn yang shows itself. It actually uses the words here asw as we move through it only shows up a couple of times. I'm simply comparing it to, you know, philosophy. And then there's, don't make everything, ot everything back to christianity, ferno.

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