Comments on: Little book, BIG ideas — the Tao Te Ching http://dreamtimepublishing.com/blog/little-book-big-ideas-the-tao-te-ching Books & Authors Sun, 23 Nov 2008 10:30:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 by: Jeannette Cezanne http://dreamtimepublishing.com/blog/little-book-big-ideas-the-tao-te-ching#comment-11 Sun, 24 Sep 2006 16:59:29 +0000 http://dreamtimepublishing.com/blog/little-book-big-ideas-the-tao-te-ching#comment-11 I've long been interested in the Tao (the version without the trucks, incidentally!), and I like the central concept, that the only constant in life is change. "Going with the flow" may be an expression that became popular in the 1960s, but it's an ancient concept; water will always triumph over stone in the end. What I find a little less comfortable is what I read as its emphasis on the individual over the community. There's just so far that a sense of "this is the way things are" can resonate when one sees things happening that are cruel. That's the dissonance I feel reading Lao-Tse. --- Jeannette I’ve long been interested in the Tao (the version without the trucks, incidentally!), and I like the central concept, that the only constant in life is change. “Going with the flow” may be an expression that became popular in the 1960s, but it’s an ancient concept; water will always triumph over stone in the end.

What I find a little less comfortable is what I read as its emphasis on the individual over the community. There’s just so far that a sense of “this is the way things are” can resonate when one sees things happening that are cruel. That’s the dissonance I feel reading Lao-Tse.

— Jeannette

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