One particular email exchange included in the House Oversight Committee’s recent release of 20,000 pages of documents related to Jeffrey Epstein has resulted in an online frenzy, with questions circulating as to who a mysterious “Bubba” could be, who, according to the email, is suggested to have per...
Maybe the real reason Trump doesn’t want these files released? He was sucking off some guy named Bubba?
While the Tao Te Ching is Taoism’s primary text, it’s basically just Taoist philosophy distilled to its essential form. It doesn’t give you very much beyond “there is this thing called the Tao (the way), and here’s a bit about what that tells us about the universe and how to exist in it, at a very high level.”
There are other Taoist texts which are less lofty, and much more comprehensive and practical. The biggest is the Daozong (Taoist Canon). It’s massive, so I’m guessing you’d find what you asked about in there. The only problem is finding a good translation if you can’t read any (ancient) Chinese.
I’ve read multiple translations of the Tao Te Ching I don’t recall any guidance either way on sex and power.
Happy to be corrected.
Also understand that daoism is bigger than that and it may come from there.
While the Tao Te Ching is Taoism’s primary text, it’s basically just Taoist philosophy distilled to its essential form. It doesn’t give you very much beyond “there is this thing called the Tao (the way), and here’s a bit about what that tells us about the universe and how to exist in it, at a very high level.”
There are other Taoist texts which are less lofty, and much more comprehensive and practical. The biggest is the Daozong (Taoist Canon). It’s massive, so I’m guessing you’d find what you asked about in there. The only problem is finding a good translation if you can’t read any (ancient) Chinese.