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 […]
When the Master governs, the people are hardly aware that he exists. Next best is a leader who is loved. Next, one who is feared. The worst is one who is despised! If you don’t trust the people, You make them untrustworthy. The Master doesn’t talk, he acts. When his work is done, The people […]
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.
If there was nothing but silence, you wouldn’t know what silence was. Only once sound appears do you understand silence. The same is true about space. If there were only space without any objects in space, than space wouldn’t exist. At least two points of reference are needed in space for it to come into […]
We yearn so hard and long to be rid of darkness. Yet without dark, there is no shadow. And without shadow, there is no depth perception. Without any depth perception, we have no sense of direction, no sense of what is near or far. In our need to find our way, we are asked not […]
