Why does gentle water carve solid rock? In Chapter 8 of the Tao Te Ching, we learn that the highest good isn’t force but quiet service. This episode shows how water’s humility can shape your English practice, cool conflict, and simplify daily life.

✨ Why listen?
• Discover why softness outlasts strength.
• Master key words like benefit, compete, disdain, content.
• Try a “water exercise” that relaxes your mind and sharpens your speech.

📜 Chapter 8 Text

The highest good is like water.
Water benefits all things and does not compete.
It flows to places people disdain,
and so is like the Tao.

In dwelling, live close to the ground.
In thinking, keep to the simple.
In conflict, be fair and generous.
In governing, don’t try to control.
In work, do what you enjoy.
In family life, be completely present.

When you are content to be simply yourself
and don’t compare or compete,
everybody will respect you.

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Press play and let calm currents guide your growth. 🚀

Why do the sky above and the earth beneath us seem to endure forever? Chapter 7 of the Tao Te Ching reveals the secret: what lasts the longest serves the most. In this episode, discover how stepping back can lift you up, why easing your grip on ego protects your energy, and how small acts of service accelerate your English fluency.

📜 Chapter 7 Text

Heaven is eternal and Earth is lasting.How can they be eternal and lasting?Because they do not live for themselves.

Therefore, the sage puts himself last and becomes the first,neglects himself and is preserved.Is it not because he is unselfish that he fulfills himself?

✨ Why listen?• Learn the real power of “going last.”• Master key words like eternal, lasting, neglect, unselfish.• Try a micro-service habit that calms your mind and sharpens your English.

📝 Full transcript + exercisesDownload the PDF with the complete script, vocabulary list, and practice activities:📌 Access here

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Hit play and find strength in humble steps. 🚶‍♀️💫

In this episode, we explore Chapter 6 of the Tao Te Ching, a poetic meditation on the source of all things—the quiet, nourishing presence known as the mysterious female. Discover how softness can be stronger than force, how receptivity gives birth to creativity, and why the most powerful wisdom often comes from silence. This chapter invites you to connect with the root of all life, the place within you that can never be drained.

📝 Want to go deeper?
Access the full transcription, English practice exercises, and glossary in the PDF:
📌 https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FZZrTcFJ8F1zJRuBmHvtxHDFHlSNvpTU/view?usp=sharing

📜 The full text of Chapter 6 from the Tao Te Ching:

The spirit of the valley never dies.
This is called the mysterious female.
The gateway of the mysterious female
is called the root of Heaven and Earth.
Dimly visible, it seems as if it were there,
Yet use will never drain it.

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Press play and enter the stillness. 🌬️✨

In this episode, we explore Chapter 5 of the Tao Te Ching, where we’re reminded that nature doesn’t take sides, and true wisdom doesn’t either. Discover how the Tao embraces all things without judgment, how emptiness can be powerful, and why silence often says more than words. This chapter invites us to release control, return to center, and trust the space between things.

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Access the full transcription, exercises to practice English, and expanded vocabulary in the PDF:
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📜 The full text of Chapter 5 from the Tao Te Ching:

Heaven and Earth are not kind.
They regard all things as offerings.
The sage is not kind.
He regards people as offerings.

Is not the space between Heaven and Earth like a bellows?
It is empty, but lacks nothing.
The more it moves, the more comes out of it.

A multitude of words is tiresome,
Unlike remaining centered.

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Hit play and return to center with us. 🌀

In this episode, we explore Chapter 3 of the Tao Te Ching, a powerful reflection on how chasing success, praise, and possessions leads to imbalance. You'll discover why true peace comes from letting go of control, lowering the noise of ambition, and embracing the wisdom of wu wei—the art of effortless action. What happens when we act without attachment and trust the natural flow of life?

📝 Want to take your learning further?

Access the full transcription, exercises to practice English, and expanded vocabulary in the PDF:
📌 ⁠https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wAtYdoV5N6KUahM8gn5rgGLiMbNBZASk/view?usp=drive_link

📜 The full text of Chapter 3 from the Tao Te Ching:

If you overesteem great men, people become powerless.
If you overvalue possessions, people begin to steal.

The Master leads
by emptying people’s minds and filling their cores,
by weakening their ambition and toughening their resolve.
He helps people lose everything they know, everything they desire,
and creates confusion in those who think that they know.

Practice not-doing,
and everything will fall into place.

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🎓 Want English lessons? Check out ⁠@goldenpath.english⁠.

Hit play and let’s walk the path together! 🚶‍♂️💛

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In this first episode, we dive into Chapter 1 of the Tao Te Ching. You'll discover how labels shape our reality, how letting go of control opens new possibilities, and why true understanding begins in the unknown.

📜 The full text of Chapter 1 from the Tao Te Ching:

The tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao.

The name that can be named is not the eternal Name.

The unnamable is the eternally real.

Naming is the origin of all particular things.

Free from desire, you realize the mystery.

Caught in desire, you see only the manifestations.

Yet mystery and manifestations arise from the same source.

This source is called darkness.

Darkness within darkness.

The gateway to all understanding.

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