If you realize that all things change,
there is nothing you will try to hold on to.
If you aren't afraid of dying, there is nothing you can't achieve.
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She finds deep in her own experience the central truths of the art of living, which are paradoxical only on the surface: that the more truly solitary we are, the more compassionate we can be; the more we let go of what we love, the more present our love becomes; the clearer our insight into what is beyond good and evil, the more we can embody the good. Until finally she is able to say, in all humility, "I am the Tao, the Truth, the Life." S. Mitchell
Translation of the Tao Te Ching by Stephen Mitchell, Harper & Row, 1988. In keeping with copyright law only the chapter under study is fulltext. All other chapters show only the first stanza.
Study Group Contac: Lissa Lord:lissalord@gmail.com
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Some notes: Let go of your grip and relax your hands. You can't control. You can Be, just be who you are where you are when you are. If you aren't afraid of dying . . . define "dying"--dying to the old body of thought, action and expectation. The paradox? When you die you are also reborn to new thoughts and actions and understandings. And this is all about change. Once the authentic self is realized, fear and anger and lying and competition and grandiosity and death fly out the window, like bats out of hell. Maybe one at a time, gradually.
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