Tao Te Now - Chapter 7
The Tao Has Nothing at Stake — Chapter 7 of the Tao Te Ching
Chapter 7 asks a question most people never think to ask: why does the Tao work the way it does?
The answer Lao Tzu gives is this: the Tao is inexhaustible because it has no desires for itself. It holds everything and sustains everything because it spends nothing on maintaining its own position. No agenda. No reputation to protect. Nothing at stake.
In this episode, Kit Mann works through what that means for an actual person living an actual life. The second stanza of Chapter 7 is one of the most compressed passages in the Tao Te…
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