Free your mind! Enrich your spirit!

Join us in finding the path towards inner strength and virtue. We are an open minded group with the goal of creating a meaningful yet fun discussion about the famous Chinese Classic Text, the Tao Te Ching. Please feel free to join us, regardless of your background or opinions. This is a no-pressure environment. Participation is optional but highly encouraged!

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Topics include, but are not limited to:

* Force begets force.
* One whose needs are simple can fulfill them easily.
* Material wealth does not enrich the spirit.
* Self-absorption and self-importance are vain and self-destructive.
* The more one acts in harmony with the universe (the Mother of the ten thousand things), the more one will achieve, with less effort.
* The truly wise make little of their own wisdom for the more they know, the more they realize how little they know.
* When we lose the fundamentals, we supplant them with increasingly inferior values which we pretend are the true values.
* Glorification of wealth, power and beauty beget crime, envy and shame. (vanity)
* The qualities of flexibility and suppleness, especially as exemplified by water, are superior to rigidity and strength.
* Everything is in its own time and place.
* Duality of nature that complements each other instead of competing with each other — the two faces of the same coin — one cannot exist without the other.
* The differences of opposite polarities help us to understand and appreciate the universe.
* Humility is the highest virtue.
* Knowing oneself is a virtue.
* Envy is our calamity; overindulgence is our plight.