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those who know don’t talk
Those who
know don’t talk.
Those who talk
don’t know.
Close your mouth.
Block the door.
Quiet your senses.
Blunt the sharpness.
Untie the tangles.
Soften the brightness.
Be one with the dust, and
enter the primal
oneness.
One who has merged
with Tao in this way
can’t be courted,
can’t be bought,
can’t be harmed,
can’t be honored,
can’t be humiliated.
She is the treasure
of the world.
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plant yourself firmly in the tao
Plant yourself
firmly in the Tao and
you won’t ever be uprooted.
Embrace Tao firmly and you won’t
ever be separated from it. Your
children will thrive, and
your children’s
children.
Cultivate
goodness in your self,
and goodness will be genuine.
Cultivate it in your family, and goodness
will flourish. Cultivate it in your community,
and goodness will grow and multiply.
Cultivate it in your country, and
goodness will be abundant.
Cultivate it in the world,
and goodness will be
everywhere.
How do I know
the world works like this?
By watching.
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agitated effort is not necessary
If you go
searching for the Great Creator,
you will come back empty-handed.
The source of the universe is ultimately
unknowable, a great invisible river
flowing forever through a vast
and fertile valley. Silent and
uncreated, it creates
all things.
All things
are brought forth from the
subtle realm into the manifest world
by the mystical intercourse of yin and yang.
The dynamic river yang pushes forward,
the still valley yin is receptive, and
through their integration things
come into existence. This is
known as the Great
Tai Chi.
Tai chi
is the integral truth
of the universe. Everything is
a tai chi: your body, the cosmic body,
form, appearance, wisdom, energy, the unions
of people, the dispersal of time and places.
Each brings itself into existence through
the integration of yin and yang,
maintains itself, and disperses
itself without the direction
of any creator.
Your creation,
your self-transformation, the
accumulation of energy and wisdom,
the decline and cessation of your body:
all these take place by themselves
within the subtle operation
of the universe.
Therefore
agitated effort is
not necessary. Just be
aware of the Great
Tai Chi.
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tao makes the whole world one
Tao is a
whirling emptiness, yet
when used it cannot be exhausted.
Out of this mysterious well
flows everything in
existence.
Blunting
sharp edges, untangling
knots, softening the glare, it
evolves us all and makes
the whole world
one.
Something is
there, hidden and deep.
But I do not know whose
child it is — it came
even before
God.
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