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[A peaceful mind.]

Share all your Tao quotes but please choose one "your favorite" and write it in bold.

With Peace and Love to you all.

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A peaceful mind

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Knowing others is intelligence;
knowing yourself is true wisdom.
Mastering others is strength;
mastering yourself is true power.

If you realize that you have enough,
you are truly rich.
If you stay in the center
and embrace death with your whole heart,
you will endure forever.

Tao Te Ching

Written by Lao-tzu

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Failure is an opportunity.
If you blame someone else,
there is no end to the blame.

Therefore the Master
fulfills her own obligations
and corrects her own mistakes.
She does what she needs to do
and demands nothing of others.

Tao Te Ching

Written by Lao-tzu

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If you realize that all things change,
there is nothing you will try to hold on to.
If you aren't afraid of dying,
there is nothing you can't achieve.

Trying to control the future
is like trying to take the master carpenter's place.
When you handle the master carpenter's tools,
chances are that you'll cut your hand.

Tao Te Ching

Written by Lao-tzu

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Some say that my teaching is nonsense.
Others call it lofty but impractical.
But to those who have looked inside themselves,
this nonsense makes perfect sense.
And to those who put it into practice,
this loftiness has roots that go deep.

I have just three things to teach:
simplicity, patience, compassion.
These three are your greatest treasures.
Simple in actions and in 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.

Tao Te Ching

Written by Lao-tzu

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be. Lao Tzu

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them - that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.
Lao Tzu

[Xan]

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My teachings are easy to understand
and easy to put into practice.

Yet your intellect will never grasp them,
and if you try to practice them you'll fail.

My teachings are older than the world.
How can you grasp their meaning?

If you want to know me
Look inside your heart.

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[Xan]

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.

You can't know it but you can be it,
at ease in your own life.

Just realize where you come from:
this is the essence of wisdom.


- translation by Stephen Mitchell, ch 14

[bloke]

"Wise men don't need to prove their point;
men who need to prove their point aren't wise."

Lao Tzu

[Perry J]

When they lose their sense of awe,
people turn to religion.
When they no longer trust themselves,
they begin to depend on authirity.

Therefore the Master steps back
so that people won't be confused.
He teaches without a teaching,
so that people will have nothing to learn.

Tao Te Ching 72 (Lao Tzu/Stephen Mitchell)

Free from desire, you realize the mystery
Caught in desire, you see only the manifestations

Tao Te Ching 1 (Lao Tzu/Stephen Mitchell)

Knowing others is wisdom;
Knowing the self is enlightenment.
Mastering others requires force;
Mastering the self needs strength.

He who knows he has enough is rich.
Perseverance is a sign of willpower.
He who stays where he is endures.
To die but not to perish is to be
eternally present.

Namaste,

Bodhi

[Solace733]

In the past, i tried to please everyone else, trying to be what i thought they wanted me to be... Now i just am, who i am...which is so refreshing and pleases me. This quote therefore is highly resonant.


“When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everyone will respect you.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

[A peaceful mind.]

Just some facts :O)

The Tao Te Ching was written in China roughly 2,500 years ago at about the same time when Buddha expounded the Dharma in India and Pythagoras taught in Greece. The Tao Te Ching is probably the most influential Chinese book of all times. Its 81 chapters have been translated into English more times than any other Chinese document.

The Tao Te Ching provides the basis for the philosophical school of Taoism, which is an important pillar of Chinese thought. Taoism teaches that there is one undivided truth at the root of all things. It literally means:


tao (the way)

te (strength/virtue)


ching (scripture)


“Give evil nothing to oppose
and it will disappear by itself.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

[psychoslice]

The Tao is the Tao, but what's beyond the Tao is the WoW lol.