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Posted by Steve on 12/1/2008, 3:51 pm, in reply to "Tips for Understanding the Daodejing"
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Hi Bao Pu,
If one approaches Laozi's work as a puzzle requiring deciphering, then Lafargue presents useful techniques for going about the task.
This Laozi-as-Puzzle approach prevails, imo, because it sustains various cottage industries and keeps the self-proclaimed Enlightened among us gainfully employed and convinced of their stature and importance.
Scholars. Priests. Intermediaries of all stripes. Here to tell us "how to understand it." In place to tell us "how it is."
Another approach is to stop trying to 'understand' it and let it sing to you, or not.
If it doesn't sing to you, that's perfectly okay. Something else eventually will, and when it does, you will know it.
Thanks for posting the Lafargue extract.
Steve
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