Just look right here.
Don’t seek transcendent enlightenment.
Just observe and observe: suddenly
you’ll laugh aloud.
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nurturing simplicity in oneself
Simplicity is something
that our fundamental nature inherently
possesses. If we prepare in advance and nurture it
within ourselves, then wherever we happen to be, whether in
wealth and high rank, or poverty and low status, in foreign lands,
or in difficult circumstances, we deal with whatever situation we
are in by retaining our simplicity there. It is not increased
when we do great deeds or reduced when we are
dwelling in obscurity. Wherever we go,
we are at peace, because we have
found simplicity.
the wise person teaches by example
When people
find one thing beautiful,
another consequently becomes ugly.
When one man is held up as good,
another is judged
deficient.
Similarly, being and
non-being balance each other;
difficult and easy define each other;
long and short illustrate each other;
high and low rest upon each other;
voice and song meld into harmony;
what is to come follows upon
what has been.
The wise person
acts without effort and teaches
by quiet example. She accepts things as they
come, creates without possessing, nourishes without
demanding, accomplishes without taking credit.
Because she constantly forgets herself,
she is never forgotten.
ebooks & apps of the Tao the Ching, I Ching,
Wei wu Wei Ching, Hua hu Ching, and
Art of War for iPad/Phone, Kindle,
You
can now buy
Tao te Ching as part of a
five-app bundle of Taoist classics
for iPhone or iPad for less than
the cost of one hardcover
book.
note to self: own your faults openly
This revelation:
Do not scold anyone for
a mistake you might have made.
Do not discipline children until you
have grown up. Do not taunt or find fault
or call people names. Turn those
judgements inward. Own your
faults openly.
we might as well stop struggling
Milarepa,
the twelfth-century Tibetan
yogi who sang wonderful songs about
the proper way to meditate, said that the mind
has more projections than there are dust motes in a
sunbeam and that even hundreds of spears couldn’t put
an end to that. As meditators we might as well stop struggling
against our thoughts and realize that honesty and humor
are far more inspiring and helpful than any
kind of solemn religious striving
for or against
anything.