Breaking the rock

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Tao Te Ching - Lao Tzu - chapter 78

Under heaven nothing is more soft and yielding than water.
Yet for attacking the solid and strong, nothing is better;
It has no equal.
The weak can overcome the strong;
The supple can overcome the stiff.
Under heaven everyone knows this,
Yet no one puts it into practice.
Therefore the sage says:
He who takes upon himself the humiliation of the people
is fit to rule them.
He who takes upon himself the country's disasters deserves
to be king of the universe.
The truth often seems paradoxical.

(translation by Gia-fu Feng and Jane English)

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from Twinkle Disc, released March 17, 2016
©Bait 2016.

*Features guests Terry McCarthy and Matt Nees.

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Bait Boonah, Australia

Formed in 2003 set amongst the Otway Forest, S.W. Victoria.
“Bait are rare exponents of the personal. They can easily perform traditional songs in all their glory with facility but they choose instead, through unique melodic & syntactical composition, to explore their own reality, a reality informed by (post)modernity and popular culture but not limited to their limiting assumptions.” G.Genovese ... more

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