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Feb 2020
52m 53s

Tao Te Ching, by Lao Tzu, Reading 2

SHARON HANDY
About this episode

Tonight, let's relax with the second half of one of the world's most influential philosophical texts, the Tao Te Ching, by Lao Tzu. The journey of a thousand dreams begins with a single snore.

 

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