The Buddha’s
teachings on love are
clear. It is possible to live
twenty-four hours a day
in a state of love.
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detachment from entanglements
Severing entanglements
means detachmeht from entanglements
in contrived mundane concerns. Relinquish concerns
and your body will not be under a strain,
contrive nothing and your mind will
naturally be calm.
As serenity and simplicity
develop day by day, worldly defilement
lessens day by day. As your behavior departs further
and further from the mundane, your mind
becomes closer and closer
to the Way.
…As long as we do not
initiate anything, others will naturally
not get involved; even if others initiate something,
we do not get involved. As past entangelments gradually
stop, do not form new involvements. Ritual socializing
and opportunistic intercourse naturally become
remote, and you become unburdened
and at peace. Only then can you
practice the Way.
Treatise on Sitting Forgetting
inner wealth and outer fortune
Inner wealth
consists of modesty, balance,
understanding, and compassion for others.
When you have achieved this, your
outer fortune will be
unlimited.
fifth changing line
from The I Ching, or Book of Changes
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the way of heaven, the way of the sage
True words aren’t
elaborate. Elaborate words aren’t true.
Good people don’t argue. People who argue
aren’t good. People who know aren’t
full of facts. People who are full
of facts don’t know.
The sage doesn’t hoard.
She increases her treasure by
working for her fellow human beings.
She increases her abundance
by giving herself
to them.
The way of heaven:
benefit all, harm none.
The way of the sage: work
for all, contend
with none.
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contact with good and bad
the most authentic master I ever encountered
Something in prolonged contact with rouge eventually becomes red, something in prolonged contact with soot eventually becomes black. What I realize as I observe this is the tao of habituation to good and bad.
When you live with good people, what you always hear are good words and what you always see are good actions. Hearing and seeing good words and actions over a long period of time plants good seeds in your mind, so that you spontanteously become accustomed to goodness.
When you live with bad people, what you always hear are bad words and what you always see are bad actions. Hearing and seeing bad words and bad actions over a long period of time plants bad seeds in your mind, so that you naturally become accustomed to badness.
Good and bad people are said to be so by nature, but most become so through habit. Therefore wise people choose their associates carefully.