Chapter 20 Stop thinking and end your problems.What difference between yes and no?What difference between success and failure? Must you value what others value,avoid what others avoid?How ridiculous! Other people are excited,as though they were at a parade. I alone don’t care.I alone am expressionless,like an infant before it can smile. Other people have what […]
Chapter 19 Throw away holiness and wisdom and people will be a hundred times happier. Throw away morality and justice and people will do the right thing. Throw away industry and profit and there won’t be any thieves. If these three aren’t enough, just stay at the center of the circle and let all things […]
When the great Tao is forgotten goodness and piety appear. When the body’s intelligence declines, cleverness and knowledge step forth. When there is no peace in the family, filial piety begins. When the county falls into chaos, patriotism is born. Why can’t everyone just get along? This is a phrase I have said many many […]
Empty your mind of all thoughts Let your heart be at peace Watch the turmoil of beings, But contemplate their return. Contemplate ( think about) their return to what? To peace? Each separate being in the universe Returns to the common source. Returning to the source is serenity. Serenity is clam, peaceful and untroubled. I […]
In chapter 15 the Master are described They were Careful as someone crossing an iced over stream Alert as a warrior in enemy territory Courteous as a guest Fluid as melting ice Shapable as a block of wood Receptive as a valley Clear as a glass of water. These are good descriptions. Do you have […]
Look – and it can’t be seen. Listen – and it can’t be heard. Reach – and it can’t be grasp. Even though we can’t see, hear or feel it – we should look for it, listen for it and reach for it. IT – God. The source. The emptiness that form comes from. One […]
Tapping into the invisible, untouchable, immeasurable force will enable you to gain the harmony that comes with being connected to the oneness. Improve your vision by looking beyond what your eyes see. Every tree and plant in the meadow seemed to be dancing, those with average eyes would see as fixed and still.
“Seeing is believing”. I have heard that all my life. What we see, hear, taste, feel is not all there is. There is something else. There is an inner part of me. The “inner Vision” as it says in this chapter. I have this outer shell (outer vision) that participates in the world. I interact […]
Chapter 3 says “practice not doing and everything will fall into place”. Chapter 3 says “the master leads by emptying peoples minds and filling their cores” Chapter 5 says “the tao is like a Bellows: it is empty yet infinitely capable.” Chapter 5 says “hold on to the center.” Chapter 6 says “the tao is […]
Can you coax mind from its wandering and keep to the original oneness? Can you let your body become supple as a newborn child’s? Can you cleanse your inner vision until you see nothing but the light? Can you love people and leave them without imposing your will? Can you do you with the most […]
