Pain is fleeting, if you allow it.
It can lead to personal growth, wisdom, and a deeper understanding of oneself and the world.
Something I recall from #TaoTeChing
#TaoTeChing
https://www.tumblr.com/singeratlarge/786105768772583424/lee-vogts-song-of-the-week?source=share
#Mary #singer #songwriter #LeonardCohen #RandyNewman #Harry #Nilsson #JohnStewart #SimonandGarfunkel #Simon #Garfunkel #Gary #Connecticut #Woodvale #Road #Branford #church #empty #countryroad #NewHampshire #GiafuFeng #TaoTeChing #Jane #English #RogerHahn #LeeVogt #JohnnyJBlair #marypoppins #julieandrews #jimhelman
Lee Vogt’s SONG OF THE WEEK: “Mary” https://leevogt.bandcamp.com/track/mary
#Mary #singer #songwriter #LeonardCohen #RandyNewman #Harry #Nilsson #JohnStewart #SimonandGarfunkel #Simon #Garfunkel #Gary #Connecticut #Woodvale #Road #Branford #church #empty #countryroad #NewHampshire #GiafuFeng #TaoTeChing #Jane #English #RogerHahn #LeeVogt #JohnnyJBlair #marypoppins #julieandrews #jimhelman
🧵 #TaoTeChing #DaoDeJing #LaoTzu
#71
Know not-knowing: supreme.
Not know knowing: faulty.
Only faulting faults is faultless.
The Sage is faultless
By faulting faults,
And so is without fault.
Knowing that you do not know, is superiority;
Not knowing this knowledge, is defectiveness.
Only by defecting defectives,
Can one be void of defectiveness.
The master is void of defectiveness,
Because of the defecting of defectives
Hence is void of defectiveness.
🧵 Some lines from the Tao Te Ching that keep coming back to me.
#27
[…] In this way the Sage
Always helps people
And rejects none,
Always helps all beings,
And rejects none.
This is called practicing brightness.Therefore the good person
Is the bad person’s teacher,
And the bad person
Is the good person’s resource.Not to value the teacher,
Not to love the resource,
Causes great confusion even for the intelligent.*This is called the vital secret.
Translated by Stephen Addiss and Stanley Lombardo (Hackett Publishing Company)
*The Wikisource translation of this line is - “However intelligent such a one may be, he is still greatly confused.”
“The Unproductive Monk” by “Words of Taoism” on Substack, worth a read and follow: open.substack.com/pub/taoismte... #taosim #daoism #taoteching #daodeching #philosophy #substack
“The Unproductive Monk” by “Words of Taoism” on Substack, worth a read and follow: https://open.substack.com/pub/taoismteachings/p/the-unproductive-monk?r=1g13lf&utm_medium=ios #taosim #daoism #taoteching #daodeching #philosophy #substack
An obsession with success is also an obsession with failure.
— #LaoTzu, #TaoTeChing, Verse 13 (paraphrase) #Tao #Taoism #Taoist #Laozi #Daodejing #Dao #Daoism #Daoist
"Rather than pour into a cup that overflowed, It is better to stop it." - #Laozi #Daodejing ch 9 #Dao #Daoist #Daoism #Laotzu #Taoteching #Taoism #Tao #Taoist
Victory comes from lying perfectly still and waiting for power to come your way.
— #LaoTzu, #TaoTeChing, Verse 61 tr Ron Hogan #Laozi #Daodejing #Dao #Daoism #Daoist #Tao #Taoism #Taoist
Knowing when you have enough avoids dishonor, and knowing when to stop will keep you from danger.
— #LaoTzu, #TaoTeChing, Vs 44 tr J. H. McDonald #Laozi #Daodejing #Tao #Taoism #Taoist #Dao #Daoism #Daoist
When you try too hard, you defeat your own purpose. Cling to stuff, and you will suffer loss. The Masters make no effort, so they never fail. They aren't attached to things, so they never feel loss.
— #LaoTzu #TaoTeChing Vs 64 tr. Ron Hogan #Laozi #Daodejing #Tao #Taoism #Taoist #Dao #Daoism #Daoist
The greater the attachment, the more acute the suffering. The greater the hoard, the more damaging the loss.
— #LaoTzu, #TaoTeChing, Verse 44 tr. Oliver Benjamin
What the caterpillar calls the end, the rest of the world calls a butterfly.
— #LaoTzu
#Laozi #Daodejing #taoteching #daoism #taoism #tao #dao #taoist #daoist
Be content with what you have. Rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.
— #LaoTzu #TaoTeChing, Verse 44 tr Mitchell #Laozi #Daodejing #Tao #Taoist #Taoism #Dao #Daoist #Daoism.
Surrender yourself humbly; then you can be trusted to care for all things. Love the world as your own self; then you can truly care for all things.
— Gia-Fu Feng, #TaoTeChing, Verse 13 #Daodejing #LaoTzu #Laozi #Tao #Dao #Taoist #Daoist #Taoism #Daoism
Accept being unimportant.
— Gia-Fu Feng, #TaoTeChing by #Laozi, Verse 13
#Daodejing #LaoTzu #Tao #Dao #Daoism #Taoism #Daoist #Taoist
He helps people lose everything they know, everything they desire and creates confusion in those who think that they know.
#TaoTeChing, Ch 3 Tr by Stephen Mitchell #dao #tao #daoism #taoism #daodejing
Yield and overcome; Bend and be straight; Empty and be full; Wear out and be new; Have little and gain; Have much and be confused. Therefore the sage embraces the One, And becomes the model of the world.
#Daodejing, Ch. 22: Tr. by D.C. Lau #TaoTeChing #Dao #Tao #Daoism #Taoism #Laozi #LaoTzu
The Master gives himself up to whatever the moment brings.
— Stephen Mitchell, #TaoTeChing, Verse 50
#Dao #Tao #Daoism #Taoism #Daoist #Taoist #Daodejing #Laozi #LaoTzu
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