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Weekend Check-In - Less is the Practice

Chapter 48 — Why Less Is the Practice

Most people who come to Taoism hit Chapter 48 and stop cold. Nothing is done and nothing is left undone. It reads like a riddle, or like the book is telling you to give up and opt out. Most people decide it must mean something they're not spiritually advanced enough to grasp yet, and move on.

They're not missing spiritual advancement. They're missing a translation issue.

Chapter 48 is not about doing less. It's about removing what has attached itself to the doing that was never part of the doing in the first place. The parenting that got buried under the…

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