Tao Te Ching August 2010
Feb 28th, 2010 | By Pattio | Category: Health, Life, Poetry and Inspiration
73rd Verse
Bold action against others leads to death.
Bold action in harmony with the Tao leads to life.
Both of these things
sometimes benefit
and sometimes injure.
It is heaven`s way to conquer without striving.
It does not speak, yet is answered.
It does not ask, yet is supplied with all that it needs.
It does not hurry, yet it completes everything on time.
The net of heaven catches all;
its mesh is course,
but nothing slips through.
Lao Tzu
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Give up learning and you will be free from all your cares.
What is the difference between yes and no?
What is the difference between good and evil?
Must I fear what others fear?
Should I fear desolation when there is abundance?
Should I fear darkness when that light is shining everywhere?
In spring, some go to the park and climb the terrace,
but I alone am drifting, not knowing where I am.
Like a newborn babe before it learns to smile, I am alone, without a place to
go.
Most people have too much;
I alone seem to be missing something .
Mine is indeed the mind of an ignoramus in its unadulterated simplicity.
I am but a guest in this world.
While others rush about to get things done, I accept what is offered.
I alone seem foolish, earning little spending less.
Other people strive for fame;
I avoid the limelight, preferring to be left alone.
Indeed, I seem like an idiot:
no mind, no worries.
I drift like a wave on the ocean.
I blow as aimless as the wind.
All men settle down in their grooves;
I alone am stubborn and remain outside.
But wherein I am most different from others is
in knowing to take sustenance from the great Mother!
Lao Tzu
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32nd Verse of the Tao te Ching
A truly good man is not aware of his goodness and is therefore good.
A foolish man tries to be good and is therefore not good.
the master does nothing.
yet he leaves nothing undone.
The ordinary man is always doing things,
yet many more are left to be done.
The highest virtue is to act without a sense of self.
The highest kindness is to give without condition.
The highest justice is to see without preference.
When the Tao is lost, there is goodness.
When goodness is lost, there is morality.
When morality is lost, there is ritual.
Ritual is the husk of true faith, the beginning of chaos.
The great master follows his own nature and not the
trappings of his life.
It is said;
“He stays with the fruit and not the fluff”
“He stays with the firm and not the flimsy”
“He stays with the true and not the false”
- Lao tzu
