If you want to become full, let yourself be empty
Wisdom from Lao Tzu Tao Te Ching 22 If you want to become full, let yourself be empty
Take the first step, however small the step is
“A tree beyond your embrace grows from one tiny seed. A tower nine-storey high begins with a lump of earth. A journey of thousand miles starts with a single step.” Lao Tzu Tao Te Ching 64 Taking first step is hard. It involves risks, learning of new things and getting to know new people. Making sure…
Being pliable is less easy to break
Lao Tzu says, “At birth one is soft and yielding, At death he is hard and stiff. Green plants at birth are soft and pliable, At death they are brittle and dry. Therefore, hard and rigid are associated with death. Soft and tender affirm greater life.” Lao Tzu Tao Te Ching 76 Stop being stiff…
If you realize that you have enough, you are truly rich!
Life is a matter of focus. If your focus is on what you don’t have, you’ll always feel lacking. Feeling lacking is dismaying, because you’re always in the state of longing for something yet to be yours and will never feel happy. What’s worse is that the habit of looking towards to what you’re yet…
Those who know themselves are truly wise
Tao is not about doing your best, but making the best of who you are Tao is about being absolutely honest with yourself. Without the honesty, you are putting your ego, own knowledge and desire in between of who you think you are and the actual you. You become what you think you are, rather than…
Tao Te Ching Verse 11 – Pot & Emptiness – Video Tutorial
What do you see in a pot? Its body contour, its lid … Although these are what you see in a pot, and probably also what you would think of when a pot is mentioned, these are not what the pot is built for. A pot is useful not for its clay, but for its…
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