Tao Te Ching (Chapter 43) The soft overcomes the hard in the world as a gentle rider controls a galloping horse. That without substance can penetrate where there is no space. By these I know the benefit of nonaction. Teaching without words, working without actions— nothing in the world can compare with them. […]
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The Taoist Trader: The Transformed Trader
Tao Te Ching (Chapter 42) Tao gives life to the one The one gives life to the two The two give life to the three The three give life to ten thousand things All beings support yin and embrace yang and the interplay of these two forces fills the universe Yet only at the […]
The Taoist Trader: You Get What You Need
Tao Te Ching (Chapter 41) When the best seeker hears of Tao he strives with great effort to know it When the average seeker hears of Tao he thinks of it now and again When the poorest seeker hears of Tao he laughs out loud Tao is always becoming what we have need for […]
The Taoist Trader: The Tao is the Mean
Tao Te Ching (Chapter 40) Returning is the motion of the Tao. Yielding is the function of the Tao. All things come from being. Being comes from non-being. (By Lao Tsu, interpreted by Jerry O. Dalton) “Returning is the motion of the Tao.” This line reminds me of the statistical concept of “regression to the […]