My three lessons:
1. Living Self-Mastery
Focus on understanding yourself. By taking responsibility for how you choose to respond to anything or anyone, you're aligning yourself with the Tao.
2. Living Without Striving
Being here now is accomplished by adopting an acceptance of life as it is presented by the great Mother or the Tao. It's a surrendering process, if you will - allowing this great all-creating all-nourishing Source to take you where it will.
Do the Tao now by accepting what is offered - that is, know that this situation, in some way that your striving ego rejects, is actually sustenance from the Great Mother.
3. Living With Flexibility
Palm trees bend almost down to the ground at times, and it's that very ability that allows them to remain unbroken.
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Living by Being Here Now
A tower nine stories high starts with one brick.
(Remember the power of small.)
Living in Obscurity
Let other people flourish, waxing on about their strength and popularity. As Lao-tzu says, you must deliberately grant others the right to expand, but take your own lesson from the fish that endure and stay in the deep waters of your Tao-directed soul.
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CYT-CYL / Tao Te Ching Quotes
1. Whoever is planted in the Tao, will not be rooted up. Whoever embraces the Tao, will not slip away. (54)
2. Seeking favour is degrading: alarming when it is gotten, alarming when it is lost. (13)
3. Give up trying to persuade anyone else of the correctness of your vision - when they’re ready, their own teachers will surely appear. (21)
4. When negativity feels like it’s directed right at you, retreat to that place of kindness and love within and deflect that energy. Remember, its impossible to pick a fight with someone who refuses to fight! (60)
5. Practice knowing when to stop. (44)
6. You don't need the approval of others or another possession in order to be happy - you must merely understand yourself as a Divine piece of the eternal Tao, always connected to that infinite essence. (33)
7. Which means more to you, you or your renown? Which brings more to you, you or what you own? I say what you gain is more trouble than what you lose. (44)
8. Affirm: The number one priority in my life is my relationship with my Source of being. (44)
9. Everything that you see, touch, or own is a gift from Tao; thus, it is your duty to suspend your ego and seek an attitude of gratitude and generosity for the Tao's creativity. (24)
10. Affirm: I am open to allowing what needs to happen. I trust luck to guide me. (55)
11. Affirm: I have no rigidity within me. I can bend to any wind and remain unbroken. I will use the strength of the wind to make me even stronger and better preserved. (22)
(Updated: Nov '19)
1. Living Self-Mastery
Focus on understanding yourself. By taking responsibility for how you choose to respond to anything or anyone, you're aligning yourself with the Tao.
2. Living Without Striving
Being here now is accomplished by adopting an acceptance of life as it is presented by the great Mother or the Tao. It's a surrendering process, if you will - allowing this great all-creating all-nourishing Source to take you where it will.
Do the Tao now by accepting what is offered - that is, know that this situation, in some way that your striving ego rejects, is actually sustenance from the Great Mother.
3. Living With Flexibility
Palm trees bend almost down to the ground at times, and it's that very ability that allows them to remain unbroken.
_____________________________________________________________
Living by Being Here Now
A tower nine stories high starts with one brick.
(Remember the power of small.)
Living in Obscurity
Let other people flourish, waxing on about their strength and popularity. As Lao-tzu says, you must deliberately grant others the right to expand, but take your own lesson from the fish that endure and stay in the deep waters of your Tao-directed soul.
_____________________________________________________________
CYT-CYL / Tao Te Ching Quotes
1. Whoever is planted in the Tao, will not be rooted up. Whoever embraces the Tao, will not slip away. (54)
2. Seeking favour is degrading: alarming when it is gotten, alarming when it is lost. (13)
3. Give up trying to persuade anyone else of the correctness of your vision - when they’re ready, their own teachers will surely appear. (21)
4. When negativity feels like it’s directed right at you, retreat to that place of kindness and love within and deflect that energy. Remember, its impossible to pick a fight with someone who refuses to fight! (60)
5. Practice knowing when to stop. (44)
6. You don't need the approval of others or another possession in order to be happy - you must merely understand yourself as a Divine piece of the eternal Tao, always connected to that infinite essence. (33)
7. Which means more to you, you or your renown? Which brings more to you, you or what you own? I say what you gain is more trouble than what you lose. (44)
8. Affirm: The number one priority in my life is my relationship with my Source of being. (44)
9. Everything that you see, touch, or own is a gift from Tao; thus, it is your duty to suspend your ego and seek an attitude of gratitude and generosity for the Tao's creativity. (24)
10. Affirm: I am open to allowing what needs to happen. I trust luck to guide me. (55)
11. Affirm: I have no rigidity within me. I can bend to any wind and remain unbroken. I will use the strength of the wind to make me even stronger and better preserved. (22)
(Updated: Nov '19)
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