Today,
like every other day,
we wake up empty and frightened.
Don’t open the door to the study and begin reading.
Take down a musical instrument. Let the beauty
we love be what we do. There are hundreds
of ways to kneel and kiss
the ground.
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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,
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give up all your preconceived ideas
send a message to president carter and his family
When you listen to someone,
you should give up all your preconceived ideas
and your subjective opinions; you should just listen to him,
just observe what his way is. We put very little emphasis
on right and wrong or good and bad. We just
see things as they are with him,
and accept them.
when we see clearly
When
we see clearly,
nothing is born, nothing
dies, nothing ever happens.
If you can dwell in emptiness,
breathe emptiness, see
only emptiness, you
will always
be full.
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read the love letters sent by rain
Every day priests
minutely examine the dharma
and endlessly chant complicated sutras.
They should learn to read the love letters
sent by the wind and rain, the
snow and moon.