place your esteem on the tao

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He who desires

the admiration of the world

will do well to amass a great fortune

and then give it away. The world will respond

with admiration in proportion to the size

of his treasure. Of course, this

is meaningless.

Stop striving after

admiration. Place your esteem on

the tao. Live in accord with it, share with

others the teachings that lead to it,

and you will be immersed in the

blessings that flow

from it.

Hua hu Ching, Chapter 9

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freedom and quietude

just be still

The fun of roaming free

is endless, hard to exhaust. When tired

I sit on a mossy bank, unaware of the cold sun falling

in my love for the cool of the breeze in the pines. Deer descend

to drink of the valley streams; monkeys arrive to pick of

the mountain fruits. What I originally valued were

freedom and quietude; why should

I require that people

know of me?

Wen-siang

fame and fortune are shallow and injurious

orion above easter island

People yearn

for fame and fortune,

but this is like aching to taste the

point of a weapon. These are shallow,

confusing, empty of virtue — yet

people become fixed on them

and lose their way

forever.

Look closely

at things that shine

without substance. Fame

enflames one’s idea of self and

separates one from humanity. Touched

by it, people grasp desperately to

get and keep it. What is the

wisdom, though,

in resisting

change?

Fortune

is a lover similarly

impossible to satisfy.

Constantly demanding energy

and attention, fencing off people’s

hearts, it returns less and less to

the soul. Yet common people

contort themselves

into cripples

chasing

it.

See

the injury

built into these,

and let them

go by.

Wei wu Wei Ching, Chapter 32

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