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On being useless

an invitation to silence

Andō
Oct 19, 2023
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How useful it is to be useless.

— Chuang Tsu.

There is an ancient Taoist story of an old tree, an eternal truth.

A useless tree, The Useless Tree.

There was an old and crooked oak tree by the village sh…

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