Putting a value on status will create contentiousness. If you overvalue possessions, people begin to steal. By not displaying what is desirable, you will cause the people’s hearts to remain undisturbed The sage governs by emptying minds and hearts, by…
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Tao Te Ching: 2nd Verse Thoughts
Under Heaven all can see beauty as beauty, only because there is ugliness. All can know good as good only because there is evil Being and nonbeing produce each other. The difficult is born in the easy. Long is defined…
Tao Te Ching – First Verse Thoughts
The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao the name that can be named is not the eternal name. The Tao is both named and nameless. As nameless it is the origin of all things; as named…