The Tao
  1. Imagine today’s politicians practicing wu-wei in their professional lives. What might change in the public sphere?
  2. Can what is unknowable and unnamable truly be grasped by human beings? Explain your answer.
  3. Billington explains the Taoist concept of simplicity (p’u) as “not arising from ignorance, but from…full awareness of the human condition: childlikeness without being childish.” Have you encountered this difference among people you know?
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