Word Cloud: Tao Te Ching

One of my long-term projects is on comparative religion. This post is something of a continuation of an old series on the topic. To recap my basic approach, I hope to neither lose anything true and good regardless of where it is found, nor to force a round peg into a square hole by pretending all religions and spiritualities are the same or even fully compatible. My prior posts go into more detail on that.

Word clouds have proved a useful tool for a basic overview of the main emphases of a writing; I've used those here before for snapshots of various books of the Bible. I thought I'd break back into the topic of comparative religion with a word cloud of the Tao Te Ching.

The commentary will come later ... but for the moment, enjoy!

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