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The Tao Teh Ching – #72 – Revealed by Lao Tzu – Rendered by Charles Scamahorn

The Tao Teh Ching – #72 – Revealed by Lao Tzu – Rendered by Charles Scamahorn

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When people desire dreadful things to come, Dreadful things will come in superabundance. They will attract the destruction of their own homes; They will attract the defeat of their own nation. — However, when they are not harassed by their leaders, They will not seek to harass others. For this reason, wise leaders expose their attractive selves. They are aware of their natural essence, but They…

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I post the obvious conclusions from clear facts.

I post the obvious conclusions from clear facts.

The goal of this blog of 4,640 daily posts has been to offer helpful ideas to whoever happens to read this thing I named Probaway. The thought I had in mind when naming it that first day was to “probe away” at ideas that I thought would be helpful to people in specific and humanity in general.

It was a New Year’s resolution to write thirty posts in one month because I didn’t think I had more than…

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The Tao Teh Ching – #71 – Revealed by Lao Tzu – Rendered by Charles Scamahorn

The Tao Teh Ching – #71 – Revealed by Lao Tzu – Rendered by Charles Scamahorn

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To know and use this path of attractive knowledge creates vigor and health, but – To make visible attractive knowledge in action Permits sickness to persist. At present when you are sick of sickness, You may attract sickness into the void. — Sages create phenomena which Attract sickness out of existence, and They hide from view their ability to do this.

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The Tao Teh Ching – #70 – Revealed by Lao Tzu – Rendered by Charles Scamahorn

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When you are alone this method of Tao is easy to understand, and This method of Tao is easy to practice. — But when one is mingled with a crowd, Only a very experienced user of attractive methods Can understand it; and Only a sage can put it into practice. — Those who know what the self is are rare! Internally that self may be made attractive and approached. Externally the sage appears…

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TOPPER gives links and condensed thoughts for each day of 2018.

PROBAWAY TOPPER gives links and condensed thoughts for each day of 2018.

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The Tao Teh Ching: Revealed by Lao Tzu - Rendered by Charles Scamahorn

The Tao Teh Ching: Revealed by Lao Tzu – Rendered by Charles Scamahorn

The Tao Teh Ching: Revealed by Lao Tzu Rendered by Charles Scamahorn Preface

Last night [1997/08/22] [2014/03/23]  I picked up my old Tao Teh Ching and read it for the first time in years and was pleasantly surprised at just how vital a book it is. I worked on it so very long ago that it seems as if some other person wrote it. Whenever I happen to pick up one of the other translations, I always…

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