Aug 18, 2020

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The Way of No Contention

Lessons from the Tao Te Ching — Verse 81

“The way for humans is to act without contention.”

The above is the very last line of the very last verse of the Tao Te Ching (Derek Lin translation), a philosophical, saving the best for last core idea of the 81 verses.

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