remain free and uninvolved

papaji

 
At all times just remain free and uninvolved. Never make any displays of clever tricks — be like a stolid simpleton in a village of three families. Then the gods will have no road on which to offer you flowers, and demons and outsiders will not be able to spy on you.

Be undefinable, and do not reveal any conspicuous signs of your special attainment. It should be as if you are there among myriad precious goods locked up securely and deeply hidden in a treasure house. With your face smeared with mud and ashes, join in the work of the common laborers, neither speaking out nor thinking.

Live your whole life so that no one can figure you out, while your spirit and mind are at peace. Isn’t this what it is to be imbued with the Way without any contrived or forced actions, a genuinely unconcerned person?

Among the enlightened adepts, being able to speak the Truth has nothing to do with the tongue, and being able to talk about the Dharma is not a matter of words.
 

Yuanwu

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live simply and virtuously

returning to earth

 

What good

is it to spend your life 

accumulating material things? 

It isn’t in keeping with the Tao. What

benefit in conforming your behavior to someone’s

conventions? It violates your nature and dissipates 

your energy. Why separate your spiritual life

and your practical life? To an integral

being, there is no such 

distinction. 

 

Live simply

and virtuously, true to

your nature, drawing no line

between what is spiritual and what is

not. Ignore time. Relinquish ideas and

concepts. Embrace the Oneness. 

This is the Integral

Way. 

 

Hua hu Ching, Chapter 50

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tao leaves nothing undone

christopher furlong

 

Tao doesn’t

do anything, yet

it leaves nothing

undone.

 

If you

abide by it,

everything in existence

will transform itself. When, in the

process of self-transformation, desires

are aroused, calm them with 

nameless simplicity.

 

When

desires are dissolved

in the primal presence, peace

and harmony naturally occur,

and the world orders

itself.

 

Tao te Ching of Lao Tzu

Chapter 37

 

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nurturing simplicity in oneself

michael maloney

 

Simplicity is something

that our fundamental nature inherently

possesses. If we prepare in advance and nurture it

within ourselves, then wherever we happen to be, whether in

wealth and high rank, or poverty and low status, in foreign lands,

or in difficult circumstances, we deal with whatever situation we

are in by retaining our simplicity there. It is not increased

when we do great deeds or reduced when we are

dwelling in obscurity. Wherever we go,

we are at peace, because we have

found simplicity.

 

Nie Bao