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Debbie Liu's avatar

That the Daodejing has remained inspiration for so long to so many is a tribute to it's ability to - well, speak to so many, with so many differing interpretations. Partly that is due to the language it was written in, archaic Chinese. We don't really know about the 'order' in which it was written though, now we have bamboo texts discovered from archeological digs where the text is ordered differently from the received version. So, we have speculation upon speculation. Sometimes it's best to just sit with the words. As you did.

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The Art of Not Meditating's avatar

“ Not everything needs an answer, not every opinion an airing. I am not responsible for the avatar with my name walking around in the minds of others.” - a lesson i need to remember

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