Today's Tao
He learns not to learn. (Ch.64)
Learn nothing. Period.
We don't need to add anything to this.
"But we want to know about Tao!", you may say.
In Tao Te Ching Chapter 48, Lao Tzu says:
"When you study, you accumulate your knowledge everyday.
When you do Tao, you reduce everything everyday."
(☞See also Reduce 48-1)
Where do we get the idea that we have to study or work hard before we get what we want?
Lao Tzu says that you don't have to do anything.
"Learn to do nothing" means "minimize your resistance".
Do you have to do anything to accept the world as it is?
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-Tao by Matsumoto / Tao Te Ching / Chapter 64
Tao answers your question!
☞"«The Joy of Not Working» really works." The very moment you truly need some words of guidance, you encounter them. It doesn't matter if they are written on a sheet of paper you get in a fast-food restaurant or in a mythical Oriental classic. Some strange force can take you to a bookstore, for example. Then, you pick up a book "by chance" and find the answer you have been looking for. Thank you, Mr Ernie J. Zelinski. You have made countless people happy, happy without working. For the people who no longer need to work, he wrote «How to Retire Happy, Wild, and Free».
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