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Don’t Pooh-Pooh The Tao

Jason Tan, The B-Side | Sharaad Kuttan, BFM89.9

13-Feb-14 10:58

Don’t Pooh-Pooh The Tao

As soon as you have made a thought, laugh at it,” wrote Laozi, author of the “Tao Te Ching”. Eastern philosophy is often caricatured as being excessively obtuse, florid, poetic and not logical.  This week we speak to Jason Tan on how he discovered Eastern philosophy and how we might begin an exploration of this rich and varied tradition


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