Tao Te Ching coverChapter 71
Chapter 71

Part 2: Te Ching

The Disease of Knowing

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To know and yet (think) we do not know is the highest (attainment); not to know (and yet think) we do know is a disease.
It is simply by being pained at (the thought of) having this disease that we are preserved from it.