Anarchist writer and professor Crispin Sartwell has published his own version of the Tao Te Ching. It is an accessible and modernized interpretation of this classic work of anarchism.
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When the wise study about the Tao,
they slog through its lessons with appropriate diligence.
When the sort-of-wise hear about it, they grasp it and lose it.
If they didn¹t lose it, they couldn¹t try to find it.
When the fool hears about the Tao, he laughs and laughs.
That is the Tao.
The Tao sees darkness as though it were light,
sees retreat as progress,
knows that that the rough conceals the smooth,
that the truth appears in fragments,
purity within defilement,
goodness as incoherence,
integrity in letting go,
simplicity in ramification.
A perfect square is a circle.
A perfect circle is boundless.
A perfect note is enwrapped in the silence.
The world has no form.
Is the Tao hidden?
It forms and fills us.
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