Tao Te Ching

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🗓️ 27 September 2019

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Tonight, we'll read from the "Tao Te Ching". This Chinese classic text is traditionally credited to the 6th-century BC sage Laozi. The text's authorship, date of composition and date of compilation are debated. The "Tao Te Ching" has multiple translations, in general "Tao" means "the way" or "the path", here's some examples of different opening lines: "The Tao that can be trodden is not the enduring and unchanging Tao." Translated by James Legge (1891) "The Tao-Path is not the All-Tao. The Name is not the Thing named." Translated by Aleister Crowley (1918) "The tao that can be told, is not the eternal Tao." Translated by Stephen Mitchell (1988) "If you can talk about it,it ain't Tao." Translated by Ron Hogan (1994) "The way you can go, isn't the real way." Translated by Ursula Le Guin (1998) — read by 'N' — Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/snoozecast) Listen Ad-Free on Patreon See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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1:10.0	Tonight we'll be reading from the Dow des Jing, a Chinese classic text.
1:18.0	According to tradition, it was written around 6th century BC by the sage Laugea, a record keeper at the Chule Dynasty Court by whose name the text is known in China.
1:32.0	The text's true authorship and date of composition are
1:37.0	still debated. Although the oldest excavated text dates back to the late 4 of your bed.
2:05.0	Now, pick a few deep breaths.
2:15.0	Chapter 1. The Tao that can be trodden.
2:20.0	Chapter 1. The Tao that can be trodden is not the enduring and unchanging Dow.
2:30.0	The name that can be named is not the enduring and unchanging name.
2:37.9	Conceived of as having no name, it is the originator of heaven and earth,
2:45.3	conceived of as having a name, it is the mother of all things.
2:55.0	Always without desire we must be found.
3:00.0	If it's deep mystery we would sound, but if desire always within us be, its outer fringe
3:10.7	is all that we shall see.
3:15.0	Under these two aspects, it is really the same,
3:19.0	but as development takes place,
3:22.0	it receives the different names.
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