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And we're just three guys who like philosophy and literature and art and history.

And yeah, we're just casting pods about it.

And today, AJ is telling us about something old. What do we got? What an intro.

So compelling. Something mold. All right. So today I have been thinking about sort of trying to

branch out from the Western canon. So I was thinking of reading through the Veda, the Veda's texts,

some of the texts of the

world's great religions and some of the philosophical texts. I'm hoping to do Confucianism as well.

Yeah, I'm just poking around. You know, getting into old stuff wherever I can. And we've been in the

Western canon for a really long time. So I thought I would try to reach out and get into

the Eastern canon. I found that that's a little bit hard because I'm a Western person.

And even in reading, I couldn't shake my Western bias. And then as I read the, so for this

week, I read the Dao Da Da-Diching. And even during my reading, I couldn't shake it. And then as I was,

as I was reading like intros and stuff to the Dao Dao-Ching to understand it better.

The commentaries, my guy.

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