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Life is Beauty, Terror, Knowledge.
That is why spiritual progress is slow: not because no one will tell us the secrets, but because we ourselves must overcome sentiment and fear before we can grasp it.
We make life real By the thoughts we project.
It is a mistake to assume that the meaning we give to something is as concrete and tangible as the object itself.
Even on the road to hell, flowers can make you smile.
The world is dazzling, I alone am dull. Others strive for achievement, I follow a lonely path.
We all have many voices, personalities, ambitions, and tendencies within ourselves. The ability to distinguish between them, and the ability to silence all the voices save for Tao’s, is imperative if one is to reach this state of being.
Sleepless nights. Diet, mind, conditions Hold the possibility of correction.
Is my mind tamed? Is my world safe?
Many problems can be alleviated by feeling better physically, and even if this doesn’t remedy things, it will give you a good basis for coping.
The only way to counter this is to guard against worry, stress, intellectualism, scheming, and desires.
This can only happen through a strong philosophical grounding and by methodical meditation.
Keep your home a haven, have control over your work place, and be independent enough to face emergencies.
The wise arrange their lives so that they can always return to balance.
During times of adversity, vision and determination decide the outcome.
In order to solve problems, it is helpful to first understand whether they are puzzle, obstacle, or entanglement.
if you are merely a wanderer in a crowd of strangers, it is wisdom to be silent.
Tao offers only three things: sound health, a way through the bewilderment of life, and liberation from the fear of death.
Overindulgence is to waste one’s resources.
Suppression kills the body on its most basic level.
Find the proper balance, and you will have a happy life and...
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Sadness is transitory, like everything else. If we want to deflect it, we need only alter its context and allow it to be subsumed back into Tao.
Our minds know the world by constructing conclusions from the data of our senses. All that we know is filtered and interpreted.
Bird song flies unfettered Over blue sky and green fields. Once you feel Tao run, Give way, give way.
The path to the temple is steep. We may stumble at times, But we must always get up again.
Spiritual cultivation is a daily activity. No matter how much we achieve one day, we must continue the next.
No person ever leapt to heaven in one bound.
Success in spiritual life is measured not by spectacular events but by daily devotion. This iron will, this deep sincerity maintains our ascent.
Dawn is a shimmering of the horizon. Dusk is a settling of the sky.
It is wisdom to know the cycles of life and where any particular circumstance that we are involved in stands on the curve. If we want to perpetuate something, we should join it to new growth to compound our progress. If we want to destroy something, we need only lead it to its extreme, for all things decline after their zenith.
Followers of Tao believe that there is a core spirit to which each of us should return. This core spirit is increasingly obscured by our own thoughts and the complexity of civilization.
Storm breaks into pieces, Clouds charge the horizon. Revolving of the heavens Generates all movement.
Without movement, there could be nothing created in this universe.
Fire feeding on fire.
But when fire feeds on fire, that is a rare condition that yields the greatest illumination.
No matter what can be achieved in joining with others, it is wise to remember that we each walk this path independently.
The mind that turns ever outward Will have no end to craving. Only the mind turned inward Will find a still-point of peace.
Followers of Tao regard all reality as being projections of our minds.
All phenomena are subjective and relative. Therefore, it is folly to further entangle ourselves in confusion.
People ask, “Is meditation necessary?” If you want to explore the innermost parts of your mind and ascertain who you really are, there is no more ideal method.
Stand at the precipice, That existential darkness, And call into the void: It will surely answer.
An opening in the storming sea, Gold deposited on bones. Once accumulation has begun, Take care not to interfere.
Dispel time And you will Dispel fate.
Fate is the force that interferes with our lives, wrecking things at the worst moments.
Each time we act, we generate a chain of events that is tied to us completely. The faster we run from these links, the faster they follow us. They cannot ...
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Trust the gods within, Accept given boons. Illusion is reality’s border: Pierce fear to go beyond.
All fear comes from our sense of self.
Sun and moon divide the sky, Fragrance blooms on pear wood bones: Earth awakens with a sigh. Wanderer revels on the path alone.
There is no such thing as a true stopping in time, for all is a continuum. Nature makes its own concordances as a mere outgrowth to its movement; it is we who see structure and give names to pattern.
Before emptying, there must be fullness. Before shrinking, there must be expanding. Before falling, there must be ascent. To destroy something, lead it to its extreme. To preserve something, keep to the middle.
