Tao Te Now - Chapter 2
The Tao Te Now — Chapter 2
Chapter 2 follows immediately from where Chapter 1 left off, and it wastes no time.
The moment you decide what is beautiful, something else becomes ugly. The moment you decide what is good, something else becomes bad. Lao Tzu is not making a point about subjectivity. He is making a point about what judgment does — how the act of naming a standard simultaneously creates the gap between the standard and everything that does not meet it. And how that gap becomes the primary experience of the thing rather than the thing itself.
This chapter covers wu wei — probably the…
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