The Tao Te Ching — Poem #2

A portal to great and profound wisdom for deep thinkers.

The Tao Te Ching, The Tao Te Ching (in simplified Chinese: 道德经; also known as the Lao Tzu or Laozi, which is also the name of the author) is a Chinese classic text over 2,600 years old. This important work, consisting of 81 paragraphs is fundamental reading for understanding the pure nature of love, as well as the mystical, philosophical, and religious elements in Taoism and Zen.

The Tao Te Ching is a primary text for, existentialists, atheists, agnostics, and serious spiritual seekers.

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Here is Entry #2: Self Culture-Self Development

When you experience beauty, you now have a

reference point and awareness of the ugly.

In the same way when you experience the good,

you are now aware of the bad.

Thus in every person and thing, there is polarity and duality;

what exists does so through paradox, contradiction

and ambiguity.

There is no having without not having.

Struggle creates ease.