Chapter 44 struck me as being to conformist in its attitude, because it talks of being contented and moderation and staying "forever safe", but it sounds so dull and unambitious that I wonder the worth in this lesson which feels like a less than stellar repeat of all the previous things said by the Tao.
Chapter 46 enhances the Tao's antiwar attitudes but I am again struck by the anti individualism of the tao, in that chapter (46) its says:
No greater misfortune than wanting something for oneself.
However I will admit that I am most likely culturally biased, because my culture is huge on individuality, and the enviroment I've been raised in promotes ambition, which immediately clashed with the Tao's simplistic ideas. Another little culture clash when reading the Tao is the idea of wu-wei, not the actual idea but the fact that it means not doing, because my culture never seems to stop moving, which can be often seen in class, where people are always moving some part of their body. The idea of wu-wei, therefore, is hard to assimilate because stillness is not thought of as a real action or non-action.
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