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If you want to be a great leader,You must learn to follow the Tao.Stop trying to control.Let go of fixed plans and concepts,And the world will govern itself. The more prohibitions you have,The less virtuous people will be.The more weapons you have,The less secure people will be.The more subsidies you have,The less self-reliant people [...] Categories: Discernment, Lao Tzu, Surfing the Tao, Tao
Tags: Tao Te Ching, Taoism, wisdom - July 1st, 2006 | … the sages:Manage the work of detached actionsConduct the teaching of no wordsThey work with myriad things but do not controlThey create but do not possessThey act but do not presumeThey succeed but do not dwell on successIt is because they do not dwell on successThat it never goes away TTC, Chapter 2, trans. [...] Categories: Discernment, Surfing the Tao, Tao
Tags: Free will, freedom, I Ching, quantum physics, Tao Te Ching, Taoism - April 22nd, 2006 | Empty your mind of all thoughts. Let your heart be at peace. Watch the turmoil of beings, but contemplate their return.
Each separate being in the universe returns to the common source. Returning to the source is serenity.
If you don’t realize the source, you stumble in [...] Categories: Great Path, Lao Tzu, Surfing the Tao, Tao, knowledge
Tags: Tao Te Ching, Taoism - April 13th, 2006 | The Master allows things to happen. She shapes events as they come. She steps out of the way and lets the Tao speak for itself. -Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching, #45
Once upon a time there was a [...] Categories: Lao Tzu, Surfing the Tao, Tao, Ueshiba
Tags: Tao Te Ching, Taoism, The Art of Peace - April 6th, 2006 | Throughout our history there have always been those for whom war, disasters and the like have been a means to profit. World Wars I and II, as well as the multitude of post-1945 foreign wars, generated a substantial increase in U.S. corporate profits thanks to the increase in military and defense spending. The New York [...] Categories: Economy, Global Agendas, War
Tags: secrecy, secret, Tao Te Ching - April 4th, 2006 No comments “Few cross over the river. Most are stranded on this side. On the riverbank they run up and down.
But the wise person, following the way, Crosses over, beyond the reach of death…” -Teachings of the Buddha (from the Dhammapada, trans. Thomas Byrom)
The Buddha was born a prince in ancient [...] Categories: Buddha, Lao Tzu, Tagore, Tao, To all who have an ear..., Ueshiba
Tags: awakening, Dharma, masters, Rabindranath Tagore, Tao Te Ching, Way - March 27th, 2006 | The Master keeps her mind at one with the Tao; that is what gives her her radiance. The Tao is ungraspable. How can her mind be at one with it? Because she doesn’t cling to ideas. The Tao is dark and unfathomable. How can it make her radiant? Because she lets it. Since before [...] Categories: Discernment, Great Path, Love, Surfing the Tao, Tao
Tags: consciousness, Free will, harmony, meditation, peace, prayer, spiritual, surfing, Tao Te Ching, Taoism, yoga - March 17th, 2006 | There was something formless and perfect Before the universe was born. It is serene. Empty. Solitary. Unchanging. Infinite. Eternally present. It is the mother of the universe. For lack of a better name, I call it the Tao. – Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching #25 What is the “Tao”? It is a Chinese [...] Categories: Buddha, Great Path, Lao Tzu, Surfing the Tao, Tao, Ueshiba
Tags: masters, quantum physics, Tao Te Ching, Taoism, The Art of Peace - March 9th, 2006 3 comments |
 
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