Today is Thursday August 21st. My life is quite good. Others are not as fortunate. At Starbucks, the space is safe, I can search for, investigate anything of my choosing on the internet without fear of being fined. This is not Russia, not here, and not now, not yet. I enjoy reasonable good health…
26 The heavy is the root of the light. The unmoved is the source of all movement. Thus the Master travels all day without leaving home. However splendid the views, she stays serenely in herself. Why should the lord of the country flit about like a fool? If you let yourself be blown to…
22 If you want to become whole, let yourself be partial. If you want to become straight, let yourself be crooked. If you want to become full, let yourself be empty. If you want to be reborn, let yourself die. If you want to be given everything, give everything up. The Master, by residing…
17 When the Master governs, the peopleare hardly aware that he exists. Next best is a leader who is loved. …
15 The ancient Masters were profound and subtle. Their wisdom was unfathomable. There is no way to describe it; all we can describe is their appearance. …
14 Look, and it can’t be seen.Listen, and it can’t be heard.Reach, and it can’t be grasped.Above, it isn’t bright.Below, it isn’t dark. Seamless, unnamable,it returns to the realm of nothing. Form that includes all forms,image without an image,subtle, beyond all conception.Approach it and there is no beginning;follow it and there is no end….
11 We join spokes together in a wheel, but it is the center hole that makes the wagon move. We shape clay into a pot, but it is the emptiness inside that holds whatever we want. We hammer wood for a house, but it is the inner space that makes it livable. We work…
5 The Tao doesn’t take sides; it gives birth to both good and evil. The Master doesn’t take sides; she welcomes both saints and sinners. The Tao is like a bellows: it is empty yet infinitely capable. The more you use it, the more it produces; the more you talk of it, the less…
4 The Tao is like a well: used but never used up. It is like the eternal void: filled with infinite possibilities. It is hidden but always present. I don’t know who gave birth to it. It is older than God. Tao Te Ching by Lao Tsu, trans. by Stephen Mitchell Plans for the…
