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Today, Lao Tzu turns shows us what happens when we strain, and he does it with images drawn straight from the body.

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Welcome back to The Tao Te Ching podcast.

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Today's chapter is Lao Tzu's clearest teaching on this hidden power, and he opens it with a string of paradoxes that sound, at first, like they cannot possibly be true.

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Welcome back to The Tao Te Ching podcast.

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In today’s episode, Lao Tzu steps back from that intimate voice and turns to look at the source he was revering, and tries to describe what the source actually is.

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Welcome back to The Tao Te Ching podcast.

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In today’s episode, Lao Tzu describes himself as out of step with the world, as someone who doesn't fit, and there is a thread of melancholy running through his words that can catch us off guard.

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Welcome back to The Tao Te Ching podcast.

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Lao Tzu loved the image of Undyed Silk, and he reached for it whenever he needed to describe what a human being looks like in their most essential state, not before virtue exactly, but before the ornaments of virtue, before we learned to perform ourselves for others.

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Welcome back to The Tao Te Ching podcast.

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Today's chapter is short. Only four lines. But it is one of the most honest passages in the entire Tao Te Ching, and perhaps one of the most uncomfortable. So before we enter it, let yourself arrive without armor.

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Today, we’ll explore the chapter 16 of the Tao Te Ching, where Lao Tzu teaches about returning to the root, the constancy at the heart of all cycles.

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Welcome back to The Tao Te Ching podcast.

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Today, we’ll explore the chapter 15 of the Tao Te Ching, where Lao Tzu turns from the mystery itself to the people who lived close to it. He paints portraits, not of the Tao, but of those who practiced it. And what he describes surprises us.

Because the men and women who walked with the Tao did not look brilliant or confident or triumphant. They looked hesitant. They looked rough. They looked like muddy water.

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Welcome back to The Tao Te Ching podcast.

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Today, we’ll explore the chapter 14 of the Tao Te Ching, where Lao Tzu turns his gaze toward what cannot be seen, and observes that it might be more present than anything we can perceive.

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Today, we’ll explore the chapter 13 of the Tao Te Ching, where Lao Tzu explores our hunger for recognition.

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