Pacifying the agitated material soul and holding to oneness: Are you able to avoid seperation? Focusing your energy on the release of tension: Can you be like an infant? In purifying your insight: Can you un-obstruct it? Loving the people and ruling the state: Can you avoid over-manipulation? In opening and closing the gate of [...]
I didn’t write this, and I don’t know who did, but it’s hilarious. If you know where it comes from, let me know. The Jewish Approach to Zen If there is no self, whose arthritis is this? Be here now. Be someplace else later. Is that so complicated? Drink tea and nourish life. With the [...]
To hold until full is not as good as stopping An oversharpened sword cannot last long. A room filled with gold and jewels cannot be protected. Boasting of wealth and virtue brings your demise. After finishing the work, withdraw. This is the way of heaven.
The highest goodness is like water. Water easily benefits all things without struggle. Yet it abides in places that men hate. Therefore it is like the Tao. For dwelling, the Earth is good. For the mind, depth is good. The goodness of giving is in the timing. The goodness of speech is in honesty. In [...]
Heaven and Earth last forever. The reason that Heaven and Earth are able to last foreever Is because they do not give birth to themselves. Therefore, they are always alive. Hence, the sage puts herself last and is first. She is outside herself and therefore her self lasts. Is it not through her selflessness That [...]
The valley spirit never dies. It is called “the mysterious female.” The opening of the mysterious female Is called “the root of Heaven and Earth.” Continuous, seeming to remain. Use it without exertion.
