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Title: Allowing
Post by: nichi on November 25, 2006, 12:16:08 PM

If you want to shrink something,
you must first allow it to expand.
If you want to get rid of something,
you must first allow it to flourish.
If you want to take something,
you must first allow it to be given.
This is called the subtle perception
of the way things are.
The soft overcomes the hard.
The slow overcomes the fast.
Let your workings remain a mystery.
Just show people the results.

Tao Te Ching, 36
Stephen Mitchell

Title: Re: Allowing
Post by: nichi on December 27, 2006, 07:38:04 AM

Those who know do not talk.
Those who talk do not know.
Keep your mouth closed.
Guard your senses.
Temper your sharpness.
Simplify your problems.
Mask your brightness.
Be at one with the dust of the earth.
This is primal union.
He who has achieved this state
Is unconcerned with friends and enemies,
With good and harm, with honor and disgrace.
This therefore is the highest state of man.
       
        - Lao-tzu

Title: Re: Allowing
Post by: Jennifer- on January 01, 2007, 07:56:37 AM

 :-*

Title: Re: Allowing
Post by: tommy2 on January 01, 2007, 08:51:10 AM

Time

To find the brightest of places,
first start looking to the darkest
of corners.

This dark of the eternal preceded
the Light of internal knowledge.

And the "way home",
thusly,
always
ends up in a circle.

All of life is spent looking for
what has already been achieved.

These things are always so.


t2f/'06

Title: Re: Allowing
Post by: Jennifer- on January 01, 2007, 08:52:11 AM

Quote from: tommy2 on January 01, 2007, 08:51:10 AM

Time

To find the brightest of places,
first start looking to the darkest
of corners.

This dark of the eternal preceded
the Light of internal knowledge.

And the "way home",
thusly,
always
ends up in a circle.

All of life is spent looking for
what has already been achieved.

These things are always so.


t2f/'06

Much Love to you Tommy

Title: Re: Allowing
Post by: nichi on January 01, 2007, 08:54:32 AM

Good one, T! :)

Title: Re: Allowing
Post by: tommy2 on January 01, 2007, 08:56:11 AM

Bittashane

Title: Re: Allowing
Post by: Jahn on February 16, 2007, 05:40:48 AM

Quote from: nichi on November 25, 2006, 12:16:08 PM

The soft overcomes the hard.
The slow overcomes the fast.
Let your workings remain a mystery.
Just show people the results.

Tao Te Ching, 36
Stephen Mitchell

Isn't it written in the gospels? "The World belong to the patient people".

Title: Re: Allowing
Post by: erik on February 16, 2007, 05:43:40 AM

Quote from: Jan on February 16, 2007, 05:40:48 AM

Isn't it written in the gospels? "The World belong to the patient people".

Or was it: 'The meek will inherit the world' ?

Title: Re: Allowing
Post by: Jahn on February 18, 2007, 11:50:52 PM

In my version "patient" as in "patience"

belong to - as in "was made for"

Title: Re: Allowing
Post by: Gunslinger on February 19, 2007, 01:23:52 AM

I never have been real hip on how the bible was translated from the Hebrew and Aramaic to Greek, to Latin and then to English, and then to modern English.  Being a natural translator, I've always been able to tell when people are giving me bullshit.

So, I like the way your bible translates that phrase better, Jan.