"Shut your mouth" - and discover unity (chapter 52, pt 1)
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Episode 37 looks at chapter 52, which is intensely complex and profound.
I start by musing on the importance of guarding our words and senses in Lao Tzu's style in the midst of a world of constant information overload and communication lacking in nuance.
1. The mother and the children - the unity of all things, Lao Tzu's "theology", and absorbing the qualities of God through union
2. "Shut your mouth, guard your senses" - making space to experience union, echoes back to the overflowing bowl of chapter 9 and the sensory overload of chapter 12 making space to experience union
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