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#12 - Running From Your Footprints

22 min · 6 de may de 2026
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The chase of the hunt maddens the heart. Chapter 12 of the Daodejing diagnoses what happens to the perceptual apparatus under sustained intense stimulation — and names the structural problem underneath hustle culture, status-seeking, and the pursuit of perfection that wears the clothes of cultivation. A guitar solo at two in the morning. A man trying to outrun his shadow. What gets clearer when the hunt stops running the show.

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