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The Tao Te Ching, along with the Zhuangzi, is a fundamental text for both philosophical and religious Taoism. It also strongly influenced other schools of Chinese philosophy and religion, including Legalism, Confucianism, and Buddhism, which was largely interpreted through the use of Taoist words and concepts when it was originally introduced to China. Many Chinese artists, including poets, painters, calligraphers, and gardeners, have used the Tao Te Ching as a source of inspiration. Its influence has spread widely outside East Asia and it is among the most translated works in world literature
道 tao/dao literally means “way”, or one of its synonyms, but was extended to mean “the Way”. (It is really pronounced ‘Dao’ in China, but I’ve kept with the western pronunciation as the Wade Giles pin yin is used in the copy I read from). This term, which was variously used by other Chinese philosophers, has special meaning within the context of Taoism, where it implies the essential, unnameable process of the universe.
德 tê means “virtue”, “personal character”, “inner strength” (virtuosity), or “integrity”. The semantics of this Chinese word resemble English virtue, which developed from the Italian virtù, an archaic sense of “inner potency” or “divine power” (as in “healing virtue of a drug”) to the modern meaning of “moral excellence” or “goodness”. Compare the compound word 道德 (pinyin: dàodé; Wade–Giles: tao⁴-tê²), literally “ethics”, “ethical principles”, “morals” or “morality”.
經 ching as it is used here means “canon”, “great book”, or “classic”.
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Proper english is a beatiful thing. Thanks for the Tao.
Good voice well used.
Magnificent! 👌🏻
Although, I am more into Seneca and Aurelius, this got me into another dimension, a state of mind with less distress and more freedom.
I have already listened to other Tao Te Ching audios but when I listened to your narration on this brilliant Classic Chinese philosophy, it captured my soul.
I appreciate your splendid job as I have been benefited by listening to your reads during hardships and adversity.
Thanks a zillion, Robin! 🕊️❤️🙏🏻
Whenever I'm anxious I listen to this and it helps to calm me. Thank you
This is the best narration I’ve found so far. 😎
Given the state of the modern world, it say 80 is fairly poignant today.
This is so revelant now more than ever
Thanks for not tampering with it like all the rest.
9:00 thank you 🙏
What happened to the five rings?
Bad translation
6:53–7:38 number 13
Not a bad reading.
I like the Feng and English version. Thank you.
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Awesome to know hard work in a practice pays off listening to this book again after 33yrs and ordained layperson 12 yrs and now discipleship. Believe it or not… It's your thoughts not mine.
🦋thank you
You dont sound stoic you sound like a robot.
To all those who are causing suffering in this world, directly or indirectly: Heed your dreams at night, those nightmares that you most assuredly are having are imploring you to change -before it’s too late…
The quality of our dreams is both a reflection of our thoughts and actions as well as a general foreshadowing of the fate of our souls in the next life…A nightly, temporary karma that beckons us to change – for the good – so as to avoid a more permanent karma.
Beauty(🌷)+Complexity(🌎)
=Intent(❤️)
The Figure 8 Analogy:
An analogy on life, death, the dream-state and the symbolism intertwined within the human experience.
We human beings are not traveling in the abstract motion of a straight line towards death (for instance, the numerical straight line of say 1-89). Instead, we are moving in the motion of a figure 8. The Figure 8 is a natural repeating pattern that is divided into two halves and is thus the perfect symbol to represent the human life cycle and our two primary states of existence that we are continuously moving in and out of -the Awake state and the Dream state.
When we awake from sleep we come full circle to when we fall back asleep (represented by the bottom half of the figure 8 )and when we go into the dream state we come full circle to when we awake from the dream state (represented by the top half of the figure 8 ). Upon death; the figure 8 of life untwines, but it’s not the body untwining from the mind that this analogy represents. It's two states of mind untwining to form a larger state of mind. (8-0)
Because the awake state is really a state -of mind, with our body's physical reality "consciously" intertwined; and the dream-state is also a state of mind, with our body's physical reality "subconsciously" intertwined. Therefore; upon death, these two states of mind untwine to form a “larger” state of mind. A state that has all the potentialities of the dream world (flying, telepathy, psychokinesis, etc) combined with all the actualities of the awake world(nature, form, bonds, etc). This I refer to as the transitional analogy.
While conceiving The Figure 8 Analogy, I realized life and death must be perceived
from one point of viewas seperate entities(the transitional analogy(8-0), but must also be perceivedfrom another point of viewas inseparable entities(the symbolic analogy👇), both of which are ultimately linked by the dream-state.The symbolic analogy consists of the untwined figure 8 of life/the 'circle of death’, if you will, which
abstractlyoverlapps the ‘circle of life’/the Earth, with the overlappment representing the dream-state, like the common area in a venn diagram, and implies that the dream state is just as much a part of life as is of death ~by which semi-explains precognitive dreams, prodromal dreams, "visitations" by deceased relatives, etc; for the dream-state has a foothold in the afterlife, and is based on the premise that “while our body sleeps, our dream state symbolically represents the state that awaits upon our body's ultimate rest.”In other words, while we are lying down and sleeping/dreaming, this natural process symbolizes where we go when we're ultimately lying down/dead -to a place "like" our dream-state…A state "of mind” with our body's physical form+bonds eternally engrained and intertwined.
✋🏿👁~8~👁🤚🏻
You're such a great narrator
20 Seconds in and I am pretty sure I'm not gonna be able to listen to the reader habitually use a hard "T" when saying Dao/Tao. The meme "you had one job" comes to mind regarding this reading
Thanks. Alas are we at war with water? I think so. To get heavy water you have to attack water bombarding it ,then you have the Atomic bomb. The bomb is the flowering of the Patriarchy. We are boiling the world.
🙏♥️👍, 10/10
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