道德经: 前言
daodejing: intro
hello and congratulations for reading this
i am guessing you are a human who is using the internet
you deal with a lot of information every day
you are coping really well
now it’s time to absorb some things about the
道德經dàodéjīng
it’s two-and-a-half thousand years old
written by laozi—an old chinese master
laozi may not have existed
but that doesn’t mean he’s not a smart guy
you can find him swimming around the internet
dropping bombs of wisdom
most of them coming from his best-seller
the daodejing
the precise origins of this mythical man and text
are muddled by the passing of time
and by many scholarly points of view which are boring and difficult to read
it’s made up of 81 little passages reeking of old wisdom worth preserving
it stays relevant
laozi is still en pointe
as an early-to-mid thirties college student
i am more of an old child than a fully-fledged adult
i have been learning chinese language and philosophy for more than a decade
but of course
many of you know more about chinese language and the daodejing than I do
and that’s absolutely fine
join me on a journey of chinese learning
and philosophical pondering
maybe you are my teacher
maybe you are my student
to teach me
or ask me
things
