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Dao De Jing 35 – Dao and the world in perfect harmony

Apr 24, 2012

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Abide in the Dao, the whole world follows. (The whole world) follows it without conflict, in perfect harmony. -> Abide in the source, one sees the whole world manifesting. Conflicts are self-based descriptions, when the self is transcended, there is no conflict. Music and fine food stop people. Dao when being spoken, is however tasteless.…

Dao De Jing 11 – Duality of beingness vs. nothingness

Jan 31, 2012

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Derek

in Chinese Philosophy, Daoism, Online Class

Thirty spokes, forms a wheel, together with the empty space within, yields the functionality of a car. -> Ancient vehicle were run on wooden wheel, with 30 spokes connected to a circle in the middle of the wheel. The forms (spokes) and non-form (empty space of the circle) together yields the functionality of the wheel/car. Clay…

Dao De Jing 2 – Dualistic nature of worldly standards, vs. non-dual lifestyle of sages

Dec 27, 2011

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Derek

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Everyone know what is beauty, because of the concept of not-beauty; Everyone know what is virtue, because of the concept of not-virtue; -> quality behind the adjective “beauty” exists not independently, but co-dependently with a judgement/comparison to what considered “not beauty”. i.e. when one let go of labeling something as beautiful or ugly, there is be…

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Dao De Jing 35 – Dao and the world in perfect harmony

Dao De Jing 11 – Duality of beingness vs. nothingness

Dao De Jing 2 – Dualistic nature of worldly standards, vs. non-dual lifestyle of sages