Know thyself, grow thyself (chapter 33)

06/06/20 • 34 min

Episode 22 looks at chapter 33, which focuses on some fundamental principles of healthy spirituality: knowing yourself, finding contentment, and living life to the fullest.

In this episode, I consider the idea that your greatest strength can be your greatest weakness and how important it is to know yourself.

The rest of the content follows the four-part outline of the chapter:

1. Knowing yourself
2. Mastering yourself
3. Wealth and contentment
4. Finding life in the midst of death

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Episode 22 looks at chapter 33, which focuses on some fundamental principles of healthy spirituality: knowing yourself, finding contentment, and living life to the fullest.

In this episode, I consider the idea that your greatest strength can be your greatest weakness and how important it is to know yourself.

The rest of the content follows the four-part outline of the chapter:

1. Knowing yourself
2. Mastering yourself
3. Wealth and contentment
4. Finding life in the midst of death

See more at www.coreyfarr.com

Support the show

Previous Episode

War. What is it good for? (chapters 30-31)

Episode 21 looks at chapters 30-31, which center around the themes of violence and war.
In this episode, I start with a very brief meditation on human justifications for violence before jumping right into the content, which is divided into three parts:

Violence begets violence and rebounds back on itself
Weapons are unnatural
War is murder and should be mourned

(For those interested, I referenced René Girard and his Scapegoat Theory, which is well worth looking into for a deep analysis of the dynamics of violence and its purpose in human history and culture.)
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Next Episode

A very bland episode (chapters 34, 35, and 41)

Episode 23 looks at chapters 34-35 and 41, which rehearse some of our old paradoxical themes about the Tao but also bring in two key truths that, in classic non-dual fashion, seem to contradict each other at first. First, those who are touch with the Tao draw all people to themselves; but second, words about the Tao are bland, tasteless, and unappealing.

In this episode, I start by contemplatively commenting on some of the long list of paradoxes in chapter 41, bringing them directly into dialogue with Jesus.

The rest of the content goes through the primary points: