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Laozi, chapter4:Dao is a trance


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hi I'm Andy

Today we'll learn Laozi's of philosophy together

in his book it written

watching but not see is called 夷

listening but not hear is called 希

holding but not catch is called 微

okay and

what's watching but not see

it's air

listening but not hear

is that a different frequency of the sound

holding but not catch

is the water so he continued "these three things

you can't keep asking questions

because you don't get the answer

so this Dao was considered a whole

on the top of the Dao is not bright

and the bottom is not dark

it's continued and keep going

you can't name it but after all it come back to nothing

it's a shape of a shapeless

its image is nothing

it's called trance

you face it you can't see his head and you follow it

you can't see his back

so Dao is so mysterious

we can't understand Dao with our human sense

so Dao is beyond our knowledge

Dao is beyond our sense

and it continued

if you hold the ancient Dao before the

beginning of the world

and you could manage today's world

if one person

could understand the Dao of the beginning of the world

then he understood the ultimate spirit of the Dao

okay see you next time bye bye


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