Mountain home sleeping
No dreams of dust.
Three robes are plenty;
Who says I’m poor?
One for my pillow,
One to serve as a mat,
And at the thunder of my snoring
Heaven and Earth disappear.
Posts Tagged → lao tzu
purifying yourself of bad habits
Turn the caldron
of your self upside down
and pour out what is inferior.
By purifying yourself of bad habits
and attitudes now you make
possible outstanding
achievements.
from The I Ching, or Book of Changes
Hexagram 50, Ting / The Caldron
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how to live with all things
mastering the wu wei idleness of tao
The ancients were
those who gave up all
learning and mastered
the wu wei idleness
of tao.
not inhibited from acting
Frankly speaking,
you simply must manage
to keep concentrating even in the midst
of clamor and tumult, acting as though there were not
a single thing happening, penetrating all the way through from
the heights to the depths. You must become perfectly complete,
without any shapes or forms at all, without wasting effort,
yet not inhibited from acting. Whether you speak
or stay silent, whether you get up
or lie down, it is never
anyone else.