a choice between fear and love

laurie lipton

 

The world is

like a ride at an amusement park,

and when you choose to go on it, you think it’s real,

because that’s how powerful our minds are. And the ride goes up

and down and round and round and it has thrills and chills

and it’s very brightly colored and it’s very loud.

And it’s fun, for a

while.

 

Some people

have been on the ride

for a long time, and they begin to

question: ‘Is this real? Or is this just a ride?’

And other people have remembered, and they come

back to us and they say ‘Hey! Don’t worry, don’t

be afraid — ever — because this is just a

ride.’ And we kill those

people.

 

…We always kill

those good guys who try and

tell us that — ever notice that? — and we

let the demons run amok. But it doesn’t matter,

because it’s just a ride, and we can change it any time we want.

It’s only a choice. No effort. No worry. No job. No savings

and money. Just a choice, right now, between fear and

love. The eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks

on your door, buy bigger guns, close yourself

off. The eyes of love, instead, see all

of us as one.

 

Here’s

what we can do

to change the world, right

now, into a better ride. Take all that money

we spend on weapons and defense each year and, instead,

spend it feeding, clothing and educating the poor of the world,

which it would do many times over — not one human being

excluded — and we can explore space together,

both inner and outer, forever.

In peace.

 

Bill Hicks

 

tao te ching ☯️ chapter 60


 

Governing

a large country is like

cooking a small fish. If it’s done

in accordance with Tao,

nothing bad will

happen.

 

Guide

the world with Tao,

and evil won’t be a problem.

Not that it won’t be around, but it won’t

find an opening. When it can’t find

an opening, it can’t harm

anyone.

 

The sage

doesn’t harm anyone,

either. When there’s no harm on

this side, no harm on that,

goodness flows back

and forth like

water.

 

from The Tao te Ching of Lao Tzu,

Chapter 60

 

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the highest virtue one can exercise

elephants world thailand

 

Most of the world’s

religions serve only to strengthen

attachments to false concepts such as self and

other,  life and death, heaven and earth, and

so on. Those who become entangled in 

these false ideas are prevented 

from perceiving the

Integral Oneness. 

 

The highest virtue

one can exercise is to accept

the responsibility of discovering

and transmitting the

whole truth. 

 

Some help others in order

to receive blessings and admiration. 

This is simply meaningless. Some cultivate

themselves in part to serve others,

in part to serve their own pride. 

They will understand, at best, 

half of the truth. 

 

But those who

improve themselves for

the sake of the world — to these, the

whole truth of the universe will be revealed. 

So seek the whole truth, practice it in your

daily life, and humbly share it with

others. You will enter the realm

of the divine. 

 

from Hua hu Ching, Chapter 16

 

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channel your energy toward the light


 

Don’t

think you can attain

total awareness and whole enlightenment

without proper discipline and practice. This is egomania.

Appropriate rituals channel your emotions and life

energy toward the light. Without the discipline

to practice them, you will tumble

constantly backward into

darkness.

 

Here is

the great secret:

Just as high awareness

of the subtle truth is gained through

virtuous conduct and sustaining disciplines,

so also is it maintained through these

things. Highly evolved beings

know and respect the

truth of this.

 

from The Hua hu Ching of Lao Tzu,

Chapter 29

 

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