Strongly-worded verse this time! Lao Tzu teaches about the subtle conspiracies of ignorance to dumb us down, weigh us down, & bring us down. But who anymore thinks of ignorance is an illness? Verse 71 teaches how Ignorance is not bliss; it is brutal, and can make us into the walking dead.
How to work with or overcome ignorance? We offer several ways to deal with the silent killer disease of ignorance.
If you want my collection of family- or kid-friendly Tao te Ching verses mentioned in this episode, use this email: marc.mullinax@gmail.com.
Reminder! Along with Chandler Schroeder, I am beginning a new series of podcasts called “The Technicolor Dreamcoat of Religion“ to which you can subscribe now for updates and our first semester of classes on how religions get made.
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