Listen to this all the way through and remember that there’s a reason for repetition. Perception isn’t what you see but how you begin seeing everything newly and peaceable.
Perception is how you see everything without any further compulsion to immediately label. It is what it is what it is.
He who rushes ahead doesn’t go far.
He who tries to shine, dims his own light.
He who defines himself can’t know who he really is.
He who has power over others can’t empower himself.
He who clings to his work will create nothing that endures.
If you want to stay on course, do your job and then leave it alone.
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 a Dao.
It flows through all things, inside and outside and returns to the origin of all things.
The Dao is great, the universe is great, the earth is great, man is great.
These are the four great powers.
Man follows the earth, earth follows the universe, the universe follows the Dao.
The Dao follows only itself.
The heavy is the root of the light, The unmoved is the source of all movement.
Thus the master travels all day without leaving home. However splendid the views, she stays serenely in herself.
Why should the Lord of the country flit about like a fool?
If you let yourself e blown to and fro, you lose touch with your own root.
If you let restlessness move you, you lose touch with who you are.
A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent upon arriving.
A good artists let’s his intuition lead him wherever it wants.
A good scientist has freed himself from concepts and keeps his mind open to what is.
To offer no resistance to life is to be in a state of grace, ease, and lightness. This state is then no longer dependent upon things being in a certain way, good or bad. It seems almost paradoxical, yet when your inner dependency on form is gone, the general conditions of your life, the outer forms, tend to improve greatly. Things, people, or conditions that you thought you needed for your happiness now come to you with no struggle or effort on your part, and you are free to enjoy and appreciate them - while they last. All those things, of course, will still pass away, cycles will come and go, but with dependency gone there is no fear of loss anymore. Life flows with ease. “If your mind carries a heavy burden of past, you will experience more of the same. The past perpetuates itself through lack of presence. The quality of your consciousness at this moment is what shapes the future.
Perception is how you see everything without any further compulsion to immediately label. It is what it is what it is.
He who tries to shine, dims his own light.
He who defines himself can’t know who he really is.
He who has power over others can’t empower himself.
He who clings to his work will create nothing that endures.
If you want to stay on course, do your job and then leave it alone.
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 a Dao.
It flows through all things, inside and outside and returns to the origin of all things.
The Dao is great, the universe is great, the earth is great, man is great.
These are the four great powers.
Man follows the earth, earth follows the universe, the universe follows the Dao.
The Dao follows only itself.
The heavy is the root of the light, The unmoved is the source of all movement.
Thus the master travels all day without leaving home. However splendid the views, she stays serenely in herself.
Why should the Lord of the country flit about like a fool?
If you let yourself e blown to and fro, you lose touch with your own root.
If you let restlessness move you, you lose touch with who you are.
A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent upon arriving.
A good artists let’s his intuition lead him wherever it wants.
A good scientist has freed himself from concepts and keeps his mind open to what is.
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