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Originally Posted by Il Duce
i have read several versions of the Tao Te Qin - i find it most applicable to martial arts philosophy, really, than a "general" worldview, but i think Bruce Lee was there before me
the only "heresies" here are the so-called Taoists later perverted the TTQ into a lot of mystical goobledy**** and imported Indian deities and created talismen and what not and so on and so forth, consecrating entirely the original message of Lao Tze
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How do you get clothes so clean Mr. Lee? Ancient Chinese Secret.
I just stick to the 81 little secrets in the interpretation I see as most accurate.
All in the world recognize the beautiful as beautiful.
Herein lies ugliness.
All recognize the good as good.
Herein lies evil.
Therefore
Being and non-being produce each other.
Difficulty and ease bring about each other.
Long and short delimit each other.
High and low rest on each other.
Sound and voice harmonize each other.
Front and back follow each other.
Therefore the sage abides in the condition of wu-wei (unattached action).
And carries out the wordless teaching.
Here, the myriad things are made, yet not separated.
Therefore the sage produces without possessing,
Acts without expectations
And accomplishes without abiding in her accomplishments.
It is precisely because she does not abide in them
That they never leave her.
And, I know the Word, but, I never said it. And, I am certainly unattached from it.
And abide rhymes with pride.
Let the loud be proud
And the ego, should be eggo, and let go
Id rhymes with squid
Ego that is super, think stupor.
Freud needed some psych something. He was mental. He crossed over that fine line I believe
Nietzsche however, was one pretty enlightened 'sophist'. whoops. I let the cat out of the bag. Wink.
How do you 'study' something that you only use about 5% of at most.
I think I overestimated, probably about 5 percent. Give or take.
peace
peace