• CodexArcanum@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    2 days ago

    The Dao that can be told is not the eternal Dao.

    Spiritual practices are experiential; you aren’t meant to just hear them, you are meant to practice them and be enlightened through lived understanding.

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      2 days ago

      To be honest Tao Te Ching reads like an edgelord fanfic.

      Yet mystery and manifestations arise from the same source.

      This source is called darkness.

      Darkness within darkness.

      The gateway to all understanding

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        3 hours ago

        That actually makes perfect sense to me.

        Curiosity and imagined reality both arise from lack of complete knowledge. These things are both illusions, which are also a lack of complete knowledge. But these are the path to greater knowledge.

        The tao te ching is notorious for its wildly disparate translations and it’s poetic ambiguity. As the saying goes, if you’ve read two translations of the tao te ching you’ve read two different books