Minh-Hoang Nguyen

Knowing Sufficiency: Learning More from Daodejing

The Laozi's discussion of sufficiency (知足, zhi zu), invoked in lines such as "those who know sufficiency are rich" (Ch. 33), "knowing sufficiency avoids disgrace, knowing when to stop avoids peril" (Ch. 44), and "no fault is greater than the desire to acquire" (Ch. 46), is ofte...