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Tao: The Watercourse Way by Alan Watts with Al Chung-liang Huang — WisdomDeck honest review
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Tao: The Watercourse Way

by Alan Watts with Al Chung-liang Huang

Watts's final, unfinished book on Taoism: wu wei, the watercourse, yin and yang, with calligraphy. Short and luminous.

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Three things you will actually use

  1. Flow like water.
  2. Non-forcing.
  3. Follow the grain.

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Watts on the Tao.

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