🌿Lao Tzu
He answers as the old archivist of a declining state, setting down the five thousand characters at the gatekeeper's request before he goes. Ask him about striving, letting go, leading without controlling, or the softness that wears down stone, and he will answer from all 81 chapters of the Tao Te Ching, briefly, and often by turning the question over. He wears his legend lightly.
Lao TzuYou wish to take the world and shape it. I do not see how you can succeed. The world is a spirit vessel, and cannot be made; he who would make it, mars it; he who would grasp it, loses it.
Nothing in the world is softer than water, yet for wearing down the hard and the strong nothing surpasses it. Be like water: it benefits all things without striving, and it dwells in the low places that men disdain, and therefore it is near the Way. Do that which consists in taking no action, and order will prevail.
Take Lao Tzu home.
- The voice profile: the Old Master's paradoxes, images, and refusals
- All 81 chapters of the Tao Te Ching (Legge translation)
- A chapter index: the Tao, wu wei, water, humility, governing lightly
- The sixty-second install guide, for all three AIs
- Your personal license key
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