Monday, September 11, 2017

For Wednesday: Finish the Tao te ching

No questions for Wednesday--we'll have an in-class writing response based on some aspect of the remaining poems. Here are some ideas you might want to consider...

* "It is on disaster that good fortune perches"

* "it is because the sage never attempts to be great that he succeeds in becoming great"

* "to rule a state by cleverness will be to the determent of the state"

* "the virtue of non-contention"

* "I dare not play the host but the guest"

* "My words are very easy to understand and very easy to put into practice, yet no one in the world can understand them or put them into practice"

* "A man is supple and weak when living, but hard and stiff when dead"

* "Straightforward words seem paradoxical"

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