keep your mind free from hatred and love


 

You must

avoid letting your mind

dwell upon anything whatsoever,

which implies being unconcerned

with either deeds or

no deeds.

 

What

I mean is keeping

your mind free from hatred

and love. This means that you must be able

to see attractive things without love for them arising

in your mind and also you must be able to see

repulsive things without hatred for them

arising in your mind. You

must examine this

thoroughly.

 

Hui Hai

 

rise up


 

Mourn not the dead that in the cool earth lie

Dust unto dust

The calm earth mothers all who die

As all men must

Mourn not your captive comrades who must dwell

Too strong to strive

Within each steel-bound coffin of a cell,

Buried alive;

But rather mourn the apathetic throng

The cowed and the meek

Who see earth’s great languish and its wrong

And dare not speak.

 

Ralph Chaplin

 

tao te ching ☯️ chapter 30


 

Those

who wish to use

Tao to influence others 

don’t rely on force or weapons

or military strategies. Force rebounds. 

Weapons turn on their wielders. 

Battles are inevitably

followed by

famines. 

 

Just do

what needs to be done,

and then stop. Attain your purpose,

but don’t press your advantage. Be resolute,

but don’t force. Succeed, but don’t

crow. Accomplish, but don’t

overpower. 

 

Overdoing

things invites decay, 

and this is against Tao. 

Whatever is against

Tao soon ceases

to be.

 

from The Tao te Ching of Lao Tzu,

Chapter 30


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