- First
- Svea
- Mirina
- Melou
- Full
- Sahar Ghaheri
- Homayoon Ershadi
- Last
- Semchenko
- Lao Tzu Dao De Ching Notes
- The Taoist's Heart-and-Mind Is a Bright Mirror. It reflects But does not absorb.
- high seriousness and wise wit
- "If my own body is not mine, whose is it" "It is the form lent to you by heven and earth. your life is not your possession. it is a harmony granted to you for a time by heaven and earth. your life-destiny is not your possession. it is a flow granted to you for a time by heaven and earth. your children and grandchildren are not your possessions. heaven and earth have lent them to you to be cast off as an insect sheds its skin. you are the breath-energy of heaven and earth. how can you ever possess that?"
- the best traveler leaves no tracks
- in the lineage of light, the best teach the not-so-good, the not-so-good are material to be taught by the best,
- knowing neither the plenitude of morning nor the decay of night.
- Let Go, Float On the Great Flux of things
- As this little grass-hut in the valley, as the evening clouds rise above the vine-clad wall, the bamboos are fresh with rain, the mountains tender in the sunset.
- the passage of an army is attended with poor harvests
- brambles are transformed into healing herbs
- even in victory, weapons are not things of beauty. to think them beautiful is to rejoice in killing. joy in killing forfeits the allegiance of all-under-heaven. when many lives have been taken, victory should be marked with rites of mourning and lamentation.
- weapons perturb spirit. they are instruments of evil, never to be cultivated, never to be beautified.
- sweet-dew tastes like barley-sugar or honey
- to die but not to perish is long life
- illumined
- to know self, to wear sackcloth and have jade in one's bosom
- by not lording it over them it can truly be called great
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