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It was 2024 PIGYS weekend in Cathlamet, Washington. I'm nosing through banker’s boxes outside the fire station filled with 1970's Betty Crocker cookbooks, golf tips, a few VHS fitness tapes...and out of nowhere this little pink-and-red hardcover blinked at me. The Way of Life According to Lao Tzu, the John Day Company edition translated by Witter Bynner. I’d been reading a Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh discourse on the Tao just weeks prior, which made this the only spiritual title i

Anyone who knows anything about collecting antiquarian books from Eastern spiritual gurus understands that the ultimate achievement is owning a signed copy. I invented the "knows anything" part because, honestly, I'm not sure how many people worldwide collect these books. But I digress. There was an Indian guru who was known for leaving little messages in books that were being sold at his ashram so that his devotees would find little surprises. I read a story about one such d