When it’s over,
I want to say: all my life
I was a bride married to amazement.
I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms.
When it’s over, I don’t want to wonder if I have made of my
life something particular, and real. I don’t want to find
myself sighing and frightened, or full of argument.
I don’t want to end up simply
having visited this
world.
Confusion
can camouflage
a powerful intent. Timidity
can conceal iron will.
Fragility can mask
might.
Thus
the superior warrior
lures and deceives, falls back
and then surges, drawing the opponent
this way and that into the path of his
strikes. His emphasis is not on the
effect of one movement, but
rather the weight of his
combinations.
He
uses his soldiers
like a multitude of arrows
and stones, sometimes keeping
them still, sometimes releasing them
in a terrible storm, like boulders
hurtling down a steep mountain.
This is the way to shape
energy in war.
from The Art of War, Chapter V
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Those
who wish to
embody the Tao
should embrace all things.
To embrace all things means first
that one holds no anger or resistance
toward any idea or thing, living or
dead, formed or formless.
Acceptance is the very
essence of the
Tao.
To embrace
all things means also
that one rids oneself of any
concept of separation; male and
female, self and other, life and
death. Division is contrary
to the nature of
the Tao.
Foregoing
antagonism and
separation, one enters into
the harmonious oneness
of all things.
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We’re
increasingly
constrained by computers…
a pixelated abridgement of reality that make
us blind to the complexity of the natural world…
our physical movements have been almost
entirely removed as a factor in our
own existence. Now all we
seem to do is press
buttons.
The
heavens allowed me
To settle myself
On a small piece of land
Looking into the distance
Digging far down
I delight in my own freedom
All who come here
Feel the lids fall
From their eyes
This view
Of the world without end
There is nowhere
to hide
In the
pursuit of learning,
every day something is added.
In the pursuit of tao, every day something
is dropped. Less and less is done,
until one arrives at
non-action.
When
nothing is done,
nothing is left undone.
The world is won by letting
things take their own course.
If you still have ambitions,
it’s out of your
reach.
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