Tao Te Ching Chapter 40-7 Advance = Retreat

Today's Tao

Advancing Tao seems retreating. (Ch.40)


I really want you to understand this key sentence in Tao Te Ching.

Advancing is retreating.

Receiving is emitting.

While you are emitting Tao the fundamental energy, you are receiving it.

It is logical because there is neither space nor distance and everything is one.

If you want to go ahead, you go backwards.

In fact, they are the same.

This is the basis of Reverse Thinking.

If you accept it, you can easily comprehend the signification of Yin Yang cycle.


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-Tao by Matsumoto / Tao Te Ching / Chapter 40


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