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Tao with Narration

  Tao Te Ching Narration Copy Several months ago a friend of mine gave my wife a copy of the Tao Te Ching by Stephen Mitchell and this is a work that I had heard of but never read completely heard a few versus never seen a complete copy so it was nice to have a little small pocket edition the Tao to change to read in reference and then I became obsessed with it and went online and found all sorts of versions of that Tao Te Ching and I guess I kind of been looking for the quintessential introduction I think I found it with a version by Tolbert McCarroll and it's very similar to the Stephen Mitchell edition pocket edition that I own but there's a very nice introduction that goes through in Yin and Yang which I'll talk about in a second I wanted to read just from the translator's preface this little book cannot be understood any more than you can understand the river if you wish to experience the river you must jump in it so it is without a chain many things in here will c...
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The Tao Te Ching

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The Tao Audio 1 The tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao The name that can be named is not the eternal Name. The unnamable is the eternally real. Naming is the origin of all particular things. Free from desire, you realize the mystery. Caught in desire, you see only the manifestations. Yet mystery and manifestations arise from the same source. This source is called darkness. Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding. 2 When people see some things as beautiful, other things become ugly. When people see some things as good, other things become bad. Being and non-being create each other. Difficult and easy support each other. Long and short define each other. High and low depend on each other. Before and after follow each other. Therefore the Master acts without doing anything and teaches without saying anything. Things arise with ease; things disappear without attachment. Not possessing, acting but not expecting. When the work is done, it is forgotten. That is why...
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