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Posted by josef on 7/28/2009, 11:29 am, in reply to "My Favorite Passage"
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: I was wondering what passages you liked the
: most from the Tao Te Ching. If you say
: "All passages are the same and to like
: one more than another is to say that one is
: better than another, which is not, yet
: is" then you're missing the point of
: the exercise.
:
: Oh the one I like the most is Chapter 28,
: the one that begins:
:
: Know the masculine,
: Keep to the feminine,
: And be the brook of the world.
:
: Aaron
My own answer is a non-answer, in that for me different passages resonate at different times, depending on what is engaging me at any given time.
When first reading TTC, it was liking fresh air rushing in; it gave a glimpse of a sane alternative to the rush-rush-do-do Western lifestyle I as born into but never at home with. Since then I've discovered ever deepening subtleties which leads to deepening insight and appreciation for the wisdom of such simple words.
To take a single passage as a favorite would be only a momentary choice.
josef
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"The Tao is basically utterly open. Utter openeness has no substance. It ends in endlessness, begins in beginninglessnes".
-Li Daoqun
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