The
point in life
is to know what’s enough —
why envy those otherworld mortals?
With the happiness held in one
inch-square heart you can
fill the whole space
between heaven
and earth.
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mind like clear blue sky
Make your mind
like the clear blue sky at dawn,
unmarked by any message from man
or heaven. Continually stoking the
fire of emptiness with the breath,
you instantly incinerate
whatever appears.
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the aristocracy of the heart
Tawazu’ in Sufic terms
means something more than hospitality.
It is laying before one’s friend willingly what one has,
in other words sharing with one’s friend all the
good one has in life, and with it,
enjoying life better.
When this tendency
to tawazu’ is developed, things that
give one joy and pleasure become more enjoyable by
sharing with another. This tendency comes from the aristocracy
of the heart. It is generosity and even more than generosity. For the
limit of generosity is to see another pleased in his pleasure,
but to share one’s own pleasure with another is greater
than generosity. It is a quality which is foreign
to a selfish person, and the one who
shows this quality is on the
path of saintliness.
serving without expectation of reward
Tao gives
life to all beings.
Nature nourishes them.
Fellow creatures shape them.
Circumstances complete them.
Everything in existence respects tao and
honors nature — not by decree,
but spontaneously.
Tao gives life to all beings.
Nature watches over them, develops them,
shelters them, nurses them, grows them, ripens
them, completes them, buries them,
and returns them.
Giving birth,
nourishing life, shaping things
without possessing them, serving without
expectation of reward, leading without dominating:
These are the profound virtues of nature,
and of nature’s best beings.
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the point we emphasize
The point we emphasize is
strong confidence in our
original nature.