SuaveG – The Gentle Path

Tag: Dao De Jing

  • Dao De Jing – Chapter 23

    This chapter and Chapter 17 mutually correspond‌. Chapter 17 reveals that harsh policies and severe punishments only generate “fear and disdain” among the people‌, thus urging rulers to implement reforms. The current chapter elaborates on the principle of “speaking little in harmony with nature (Dao)”.

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  • Dao De Jing – Chapter 22

    Chapter 22 of the Dao De Jing elaborates on the dialectics presented in Chapter II, evolving from the transformation of contradictions to the dynamic of qualitative inversion‌.

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  • Dao De Jing – Chapter 21

    In Chapter 20 of the Dao De Jing, Laozi delineates the distinction between Dao cultivators and ordinary individuals. Those who follow the Dao are not preoccupied with material possessions or transient pleasures but instead devote themselves to spiritual cultivation and the comprehension of the Dao‌.

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  • Dao De Jing – Chapter 20

    This chapter contrasts the attitude of the Daoist Sage with that of ordinary people, using paradoxes to reveal the essence of the Dao.

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  • Dao De Jing – Chapter 19

    Laozi opposed the culture of the ruling class in ancient China. He believed that this culture, by establishing hypocritical moral concepts, conflicted with regular social phenomena—that is, with the Dao of Heaven. In his view, such culture contradicted the natural order and the principles of the Heavenly Dao.

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  • Dao De Jing – Chapter 18

    This chapter can be understood from two perspectives.

    ‌First‌: Its direct content highlights how the loss of virtue in rulers and the abandonment of the great Dao create the need to promote benevolence and justice to counter social decay. Laozi thus diagnoses the pathological phenomena of his era, exposing the cracks in a corrupt system.

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  • Dao De Jing – Chapter 17

    Chapter 17 of the Dao De Jing establishes a hierarchy of governance where political excellence is measured by its operational invisibility‌.

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  • Dao De Jing – Chapter 16

    Chapter 16 of the Dao De Jing synthesizes two pillars of spiritual practice: the cultivation of stability and the cultivation of wisdom‌.

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  • Dao De Jing – Chapter 13

    The attachment to the self denote subjective obsession with an illusory ego‌. Liberation arises solely through relinquishing egoic attachment‌.

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