Summary: <p>Listen to episode 108 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Tao Te Ching. Edited and adapted from Dwight Goddard’s translation of the <a href="http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/Philosophy/Taichi/lao.html">Lao Tzu’s</a> classic book Tao Te Ching.</p><br> <p><strong>Spirituality Podcast Excerpt</strong>: <em>The Tao has three treasures which it guards and cherishes. The first is called compassion; the second is called economy; the third is called humility. A person who is compassionate can 'be truly brave; a person who is economical can be truly generous; a person who is humble can become a useful servant. </em></p><br> <p><em>If we discard compassion and are still brave, abandon economy and are still generous, forsake humility and still seek to be serviceable, our days are numbered. On the other hand, if we are truly compassionate, in battle we will be a conqueror and in defense we will be secure. When even Heaven helps people it is because of compassion that she does so. </em></p><br> <p><em>My words are very easy to understand and very easy to put into practice, yet in all the world no one appears to understand them or to practice them. Words have an ancestor (a preceding idea), deeds have a master (a preceding purpose), and just as these are often not understood, so I am not understood.</em></p><br> <p><strong>Related Spirituality Podcasts:</strong></p><br> <p><a title="The Best Quotes & Sayings" href="http://podcast.livinghour.org/e/confucius-wisdom-the-best-quotes-sayings/">The Wisdom of Confucius</a></p><br> <p><a title="Hermetic Philosophy" href="http://podcast.livinghour.org/e/nothing-happens-by-chance-the-kybalion-hermetic-philosophy/">The Kybalion</a></p>
