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tao te ching ☯️ chapter 60


 

Governing

a large country is like

cooking a small fish. If it’s done

in accordance with Tao,

nothing bad will

happen.

 

Guide

the world with Tao,

and evil won’t be a problem.

Not that it won’t be around, but it won’t

find an opening. When it can’t find

an opening, it can’t harm

anyone.

 

The sage

doesn’t harm anyone,

either. When there’s no harm on

this side, no harm on that,

goodness flows back

and forth like

water.

 

from The Tao te Ching of Lao Tzu,

Chapter 60

 

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tolerating disarray, remaining at rest

ap

 

A sage is subtle,

intuitive, penetrating, profound. 

His depths are mysterious and

unfathomable. 

 

The best one can do is

describe his appearance: the sage

is alert as a person crossing a winter stream; as

circumspect as a person with neighbors on all four sides; 

as respectful as a thoughtful guest; as yielding as

melting ice; as simple as uncarved wood; 

as open as a valley; as chaotic

as a muddy torrent. 

 

Why “chaotic

as a muddy torrent”? 

Because clarity is learned by

being patient  in the

heart of chaos. 

 

Tolerating

disarray, remaining at rest, 

gradually one learns to allow muddy water to

settle and proper responses to reveal themselves. 

Those who aspire to tao don’t long for fulfillment. 

They selflessly allow tao to use and deplete

them; they calmly allow tao to renew

and complete them. 

 

from The Tao te Ching of Lao Tzu,

Chapter 15

 

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channel your energy toward the light


 

Don’t

think you can attain

total awareness and whole enlightenment

without proper discipline and practice. This is egomania.

Appropriate rituals channel your emotions and life

energy toward the light. Without the discipline

to practice them, you will tumble

constantly backward into

darkness.

 

Here is

the great secret:

Just as high awareness

of the subtle truth is gained through

virtuous conduct and sustaining disciplines,

so also is it maintained through these

things. Highly evolved beings

know and respect the

truth of this.

 

from The Hua hu Ching of Lao Tzu,

Chapter 29

 

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