All that’s
important is concentrated
focus, purity, and stillness. Even when
you are engaged in doing things, this is not something
external. Take hold of them and return them to yourself —
this is what wondrous function is. The eighty thousand
sensory afflictions are immediately transformed
into eighty thousand means of transcendence,
and there is no more need to make
a special point of studying
with teachers.
The Tao
gives rise to all forms,
yet it has no form of its own.
If you attempt to fix a picture of
it in your mind, you will lose
it. This is like pinning a
butterfly: the husk is
captured, but the
flying is
lost.
Why not be
content with simply
experiencing
it?
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Pause
to consider
the widespread degree
to which people prefer chasing
fame and fortune to refining their
understanding of the Way. The evidence
is that status and riches make people
more insecure and frantic,
not less, but do
they examine
this?
The wise
person does,
and acts accordingly.
She divests herself of unnecessary
possessions and abandons frenetic activity.
With her quiet mind and untroubled
heart, she is at home anywhere
in the universe wearing
a patched
robe.
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the ashes of eva saulitis, an orca researcher in prince william sound, were being scattered.
a mother and two young orcas appeared and hovered for minutes.
Forget
about understanding and
harmonizing and making all things one.
The universe is already a harmonious
oneness; just realize
that.
If you
scramble about in
search of inner peace,
you will lose your
inner peace.
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Favor
and disgrace are
equally problematic. Hope
and fear are phantoms
of the body.
What
does it mean that
“favor and disgrace are
equally problematic”? Favor
lifts you up; disgrace knocks you down.
Either one depends on the opinions
of others and causes you to
depart from your
center.
What
does it mean that
“hope and fear are phantoms
of the body”? When you regard your
body as your self, hope and fear have real
power over you. If you abandon the
notion of body as self, hope
and fear cannot
touch you.
Know
the universe as
your self, and you can live
absolutely anywhere in comfort.
Love the world as your self,
and you’ll be able
to care for it
properly.
from The Tao te Ching of Lao Tzu,
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