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tao doesn’t lord over anything

the highest good is like water

 

The great Tao

floods and flows in every direction.

Everything in existence depends on it, and it doesn’t deny them.

It accomplishes its work without naming or making claims for itself.

Everything in existence is clothed and nourished by it,

but it doesn’t strain over anything.

Aimless, ambitionless, it might

be called “small.”

 

Everything in

existence returns to it,

and still it doesn’t lord over anything.

Thus it might also be called

“great.”

 

Because it has no desire to

be great, it can achieve 

greatness.

 

Tao te Ching of Lao Tzu,

Chapter 34

 

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where does your mind come from?

the largest known structure in the universe

 

Good and evil all

arise from one’s own mind.


But tell me, besides your activities,


thoughts, and discrimination,
 what do you call

your own mind?
 Where does your mind come from?


If you can discern where your own mind comes from,


then boundless karmic obstruction
 will be cleared

away instantly,
 and all sorts of marvels will

come of themselves
 without

being sought.

 

Dahui

 

weapons are tools of evil


 

Weapons are tools of evil,

shunned and avoided by everything

in nature. Because people of tao follow

nature, they want nothing to

do with weapons.

 

Un-evolved people are eager

to act out of strength, but a person of tao

values peace and quiet. He knows that every being

is born of the womb of tao. This means that his

enemies are his enemies second, his own

brothers and sisters first.

 

Thus he resorts to weapons

only in the direst necessity, and then uses

them with utmost restraint. He takes no pleasure in victory,

because to rejoice in victory is to delight in killing.

Whoever delights in killing will not

find success in this world.

 

Observe victories as

you observe a death in the

family: with sorrow and mourning.

Every victory is a funeral

for kin.

 

Tao te Ching of Lao Tzu,

Chapter 31


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it’s simple to become a sage

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a king was born

 

It’s simple 

to become a sage: all

that’s required is to burn up,

 die, and cool into

ashes.

 

Rise early, 

then, and set fire to

all you think and feel and 

believe. Look beyond the smoke 

of that pit into what is left: 

emptiness filled with 

emptiness. 

 

Breathe it in. 

Pour it out. Circulating 

the Oneness without stopping, 

endlessly renewing your determination, 

working steadily day after day and

year upon year, you’ll find 

yourself alert, rested, 

illuminated.

 

Wei wu Wei Ching, Chapter 18

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