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talking about the character of the tao source of life is fundamentally useless

talking about the lessons of the tao way of life is likewise useless

Chapter 14, Tao Te Ching

Is there anybody left who hasn't read the Tao Te Ching? It’s been said that Lao-tzu’s classic has been translated more times than there are fleas on Tarzan’s dog. The cryptic musings of Lao-tzu, the Ancient Child, seem to speak directly to some funky hunger lurking in the psychic bowels of the human spirit. College kids from Hong Kong to Timbuktu have been known to hunker down with a copy of the Old Man’s verses, pondering the intricacies of the Void until their eyeballs wobbled. More than a few have proclaimed that the Way that can't be called a Way is simply a linguistic puzzle of unfathomable dimensions, best pondered while stoned or in deep samadhi. So it goes for the past 2,500 years.   Read more...