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Seventy-Second Chapter

Posted by Madhu B. Wangu on March 13, 2009

Seventy-Second Chapter
Tao Te-Ching
When people lack a sense of awe, there is disaster.
When people do not fear worldly power.
A greater power will arrive.
Do not despise the conditions of your birth.
Do not resist the natural course of your life.
In this way you will not be weary of this world.
Therefore the sage knows himself but makes no [...]

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Seventy-First Chapter

Posted by Madhu B. Wangu on March 6, 2009

Seventy-First Chapter
Tao-te Ching
Knowing ignorance is strength.
Ignoring knowledge is sickness.
Only when we are sick of our sickness shall we be free from the disease.
The sage is free from the disease but he recognizes it.
This is the secret of his health.
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As I Understand It:
Not being an intellectual (a person whose rational thinking is cut-off from intuitive feeling) [...]

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