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The Dao De Jing moves away from reason and away from rationality

Taoists think with their whole body. They think with their intuitions while the westerners are just supposed to think with their logical mind.

The Dao De Jing moves away from reason and away from rationality. You can’t figure it out by using your minds, whereas Westerners, philosophers and thinkers for a long time have tried to make things rational because logos was rational. Taoists think with their whole body. They think with their intuition, while Westerners are just supposed to think with their logical mind.

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