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Tao Te Ching by Laozi

5.0

i've never connected with any sort of religious or spiritual text in my life before this. im seeing that a lot of people are saying this "went completely over their head" but i feel like i just took lsd so here's the best way i can articulate my thoughts about this

i've always thought that i don't need a god, i don't need a true source, etc. because i believe in myself and others. while i still do believe in myself and others before anything, i do like the idea of an unknowable mystery force- not a conscious entity, but something more abstract- that is a place of ultimate safety. 

i also like that the tao te ching takes such a feminine angle to approaching life. success and peace involves yielding and softness. i think the recurring water metaphor ties into this too. it encourages you to put yourself into the flow of things, into the water, into the center of the dao, and in order to do this you have to yield and accept the dao as existing within you. 

i think the thing i least connected with was the "doing not-doing" parts, but even then i still sort of get what this is going after. the correct answer and way to solve the problem will come to you naturally without you doing any conscious thinking about it. the idea of this kind of stresses me out because i do not trust myself to subconsciously generate the right answer to anything but ok laozi go off