Lao Tzu on Himself

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Chapter nine of the Sayings of Laoutsu by Lautsu, translated
by Lionel Giles. This LibriVox recording is in the public
domain recording by Nema l'autsu on himself. Alas the barrenness
of the age has not yet reached its limit, all

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men are radiant with happiness, as if enjoying a great feast,
as if mounted on a tower in spring. I alone
am still in give, as yet no sign of joy.
I am like an infant which has not yet smiled.
For lorn is one who is nowhere to lay his head.
Other men have plenty, while I alone seem to have

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lost all. I am a man foolish in heart, dull
and confused. Other men are full of light. I alone
seem to be in darkness. Other men are alert. I
alone am listless. I am unsettled, as the ocean drifting,
as though I had no stopping place. All men have
the usefulness. I alone am stupid and clownish. Lonely though

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I am and unlike other men, yet I revere the
foster mother. Tw My words are very easy to understand,
very easy to put into practice. Yet the world can
neither understand nor practice them. My words have a clue,
my actions have. An underlying principle is because men do

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not know the clue that they understand me. Not. Those
who know me are but few, And on that account
my honor is the greater. Thus the sage wears coarse garments,
but carries a jewel in his bosom. End of Laotsu
on himself. End of the Sayings of Laotsu by Laoutsu,

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translated by Lionel Giles,