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May 2019
39m 33s

Tao Te Ching, by Lao Tze, Reading 1

SHARON HANDY
About this episode

This week we fulfill a listener request, and relax to one of the world's earliest and most influential philosophical texts, the Tao Te Ching, by Lao Tze. If you stay awake long enough, perhaps you'll figure out what it all means, but don't hurt yourself.

 

Music: "Exit Exit" by PCIII (freemusicarchive.org), licensed under CC BY

 

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