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#YESquotes - #TaoTeChing / LaoTzu/Ursula LeGuin trans -
"Simple in actions and thoughts, you return to the source of being.
Patient with both friends and enemies,
you accord with the way things are.
#Compassionate toward yourself,
you #reconcile all beings in the world.”
#innerpeace
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#taoteching
“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
Great straightness seems twisted. Great intelligence seems stupid. Great eloquence seems awkward.
— Gia-Fu Feng, #daodejing, Verse 45
"Governing a large state is like boiling a small fish."
#LaoTzu, #TaoTeChing, chapter 60 (translation by D.C. Lau)
#HatTip to @npub1f6ugxyxkknket3kkdgu4k0fu74vmshawermkj8d06sz6jts9t4kslazcka on Nostr for posting the larger quote.
Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt. Chase after money and security and your heart will never unclench. Care about people’s approval and you will be their prisoner. Do your work, then step back. The only path to serenity.
— Stephen Mitchell, Tao Te Ching, Verse 9
#daodejing #taoteching #Daoism #Daoist #Taoism #taoist zi #LaoTzu
Therefore the sage goes about doing nothing, teaching no-talking.
The ten thousand things rise and fall without cease.
Creating, yet not possessing.
Working, yet not taking credit.
Work is done, then forgotten.
Therefore it lasts forever.
(Trans Gia-fu Feng & Jane English)
Has anyone done a modern colloquial version of the #TaoTeChing called something like "The Way Shit Is & Should Be"?
“If you understand others you are smart.
If you understand yourself you are illuminated.
If you overcome others you are powerful.
If you overcome yourself you have strength.
If you know how to be satisfied you are rich.
If you can act with vigor, you have a will.
If you don’t lose your objectives you can be long-lasting.
If you die without loss, you are eternal.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
#quote #philosophy #laotzu #tao #taoteching #quoteoftheday #taoism
@skeletor 
THIS!
Tao Te Ching
Stephen Mitchell #translation
Ch. 17
When the Master governs, the people are hardly aware that he exists.
Next best is a leader who is loved.
Next, one who is feared.
The worst is one who is despised.
If you don’t trust the people,
you make them untrustworthy.
The Master doesn’t talk, he acts.
When his work is done, the people say, “Amazing:
we did it, all by ourselves!”
"Weapons are inauspicious instruments, not the tools of the enlightened. When there is no choice but to use them, it is best to be calm and free from greed, and not celebrate victory. Those who celebrate victory are bloodthirsty, and the bloodthirsty cannot have their way with the world."
@lesradiosbutches Exactly!!!
Part of what got me inspired was someone else who used that idea to apply it to the #TaoTeChing.
In Red Pine's translation, he has compiled various Chinese scholars throughout the ages, commenting on that chapter. That made it feel less of a religious idea and more of a social-historical one.
Thoughts on how my interest in the #Taoism and the #TaoTeChing led me to understand writing can be a kind of meditation - if you give it time. https://www.xenofact.com/2023/03/20/and-so-words-become-part-of-us/