When your tasks
are few, naturally your pains are few.
When your words are few, naturally your troubles
are few. When you eat little, naturally you get sick less.
When you have few desires in your heart,
naturally you have few
worries.
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tao alone nourishes and fulfills
When a
wise person hears Tao,
he practices it diligently. When an
average person hears Tao, he practices it
sometimes, and just as often ignores it.
When an inferior person hears Tao,
he roars with laughter.
If he didn’t laugh,
it wouldn’t be
Tao.
Thus
the age old sayings:
The way to illumination appears dark.
The way that advances appears to retreat.
The way that is easy appears to be hard.
The highest virtue appears empty.
The purest goodness appears soiled.
The most profound creativity appears fallow.
The strongest power appears weak.
The most genuine seems unreal.
The greatest space has no corners.
The largest talent matures slowly.
The highest voice can’t be heard.
The most luminous image
can’t be seen.
Tao is hidden
and has no name.
Tao alone nourishes
and fulfills all
things.
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be the same all the way through
Be the same
all the way through:
quiet, still, at home. In the
absence of mind, all phenomena
can be seen for what they
are — empty. This is
freedom.
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hexagram 32 ☯️ heng / duration
Remain steady
and allow the world
to shape itself.
Receiving
this hexagram is an
encouragement to endure, to move
ahead by abiding in what is true and correct.
It is not a time to let the ego swell with successes
nor to despair at misfortunes. It is
simply a time to hold to the
path of essential
truth.
It is
likely that a
change has occurred,
or is about to. It is your responsibility
to hold your course and go on without regarding
this change. Constancy in correct thought and action
is the order of the day. Rather than letting your
head be turned, simply hold steady
on your spiritual path while
the world reforms
around
you.
Do not
indulge in judgment,
impatience, or ambitious thinking
now. By concerning yourself only with what
is essential and true and good, only with what
is in front of you and your correct
relationship to it, you meet
with good fortune
now.
The I Ching, or Book of Changes
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our spiritual food changes us
Our bodily
food changes into us,
but our spiritual food
changes us into
itself.