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.
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.
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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If you wish
to enjoy the fruits
of enlightenment, abandon
regard for the conventional and
the communal. The Way is a path
for one. Then it narrows
until there’s not even
space for you
anymore.
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Because
I have a little wisdom,
I choose to walk the great path of
tao, fearing nothing but to stray from
it. The great way is very smooth
and easy, but some people
are fond of getting
sidetracked.
When a ruler’s
palace is full of treasure,
the people’s fields are weedy
and their granaries are empty.
If the ruler wears fancy clothes and
his house is full of weapons, if his table
is laden with extravagant food and drink
and everywhere one looks he has more
wealth than he can use, the ruler
is a robber and thief. This
is not in keeping
with tao.
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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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