What comes first, life or status? What’s more important to you, yourself or your possessions? What’s worse, having or losing? One who wants a lot pays a high price One who has a lot, has a lot to lose But one who is satisfied knows neither fear nor disgrace And one who has stopped playing [...]
The softest is stronger than the very hardest That which makes everything be what it is, penetrates everything Therefore I know that it’s wise to leave and not do anything That one doesn’t need lessons for it That of all doings, leaving is where true happiness lies In this world only a few understand this
The unspeakable gives birth to one One to a second And out of the second arises the third The third brings the whole creation to life Everything is carried by the dark and comes to light The breath of Emptiness creates order People hate to be alone, unimportant and useless And yet that is what [...]
When the most sincere hear about the road to self-knowledge, They will devote themselves to bringing it into practice When the fairly sincere hear about the road to self-knowledge They will only get out of it what suits their purposes When the hardened hear about the road to self-knowledge They will roar with laughter If [...]
One who deviates from the right and simple road Will be pulled towards it again This occurs with a mild touch The whole creation comes into existence The existing out of the unnameable unexisting
About the men of old that had reached perfection We know that they felt one with the whole creation That they saw the earth not as chaos but as a unity That they felt like gods and spiritual beings That emptiness was no longer empty, but filled And they saw that the whole creation was [...]
