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XLVIII. To Forget Knowledge

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XLVIII TO FORGET KNOWLEDGE He who attends daily to learning increases in learning. He who practices Tao daily diminishes. Again and again he humbles himself. Thus he attains to non-doing (wu wei). He practices non-doing and yet there is nothing left undone. To command the empire one must not employ craft. If one uses craft he is not fit to command the empire.

Source: Internet Sacred Text Archive, file tao/ltw/tao48.htm.

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