\ntranslation \u00a9 D.C. Lau<\/p>\n
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Lao Tzu was a Chinese poet and philosopher who is believed to have died in 531 BC.<\/p>\n —<\/p>\n XLVII Without stirring abroad One can know the whole world; Without looking out the window One can see the way of heaven. The further one goes The less one knows. Therefore the sage knows without having to stir, Identifies without having to see, Accomplishes without having to act. from the 1963 Penguin Classic edition of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30490"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30494,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30490\/revisions\/30494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Tao](\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Tao-Te-Ching-97x150.jpg\")
<\/a>The Tao Te Ching<\/em><\/strong> is one of my favourite philosophical texts. Although, like many such works, it is frequently cryptic and contains layers of meaning, the poetry also works on its own, as I hope this excerpt shows.<\/p>\n![\"TuesPoem\"](\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/TuesPoem.jpg\")
<\/a>To read this week\u2019s poem on the Tuesday Poem Hub<\/strong>, and other great poems featured by fellow Tuesday poets from around the world, click here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"