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Anon studies Buddhism (sh.itjust.works)

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[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

That actually makes perfect sense to me.

Curiosity and imagined reality both arise from lack of complete knowledge. These things are both illusions, which are also a lack of complete knowledge. But these are the path to greater knowledge.

The tao te ching is notorious for its wildly disparate translations and it's poetic ambiguity. As the saying goes, if you've read two translations of the tao te ching you've read two different books