• MyNameIsIgglePiggle
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    1 year ago

    There was a quote attributed to Lao Tzu I saw on tiktok the other day, and I was pretty damn sure it was nowhere in the Tao Te Ching, but I was curious if there was some weird translation out there I wasn’t aware of.

    The conversation went EXACTLY like this. Like down to the word.

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      1 year ago

      If you look into the original sources, it gets confusing pretty quickly. There’s a bunch of other sources (e.g. the zhuangzi) that assign quotes to Lao Tzu, but they’re probably made up.

      However, Lao Tzu probably didn’t write the Tao Te Ching, so 🤷‍♂️.

      https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laozi

      Basically, by making shit up and saying Lao Tzu said it, tiktok is continuing a long Chinese tradition.