Tao Te Ching vs 22

by AK - Jeff 28 Replies latest jw friends

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  AK - Jeff

  Yield and overcome; bend and be straight.
  Empty out and be full; wear out and be renewed.
  Have little and gain; have much and be confused.

  Therefore, the True Person embraces the One
  and becomes a model for all.

  Do not look only at yourself, and you will see much.
  Do not justify yourself, and you will be distinguished.
  Do not brag, and you will have merit.
  Do not be prideful, and your work will endure.

  It is because you do not strive
  that no one under heaven can strive with you.

  The saying of the Old Ones,
  "Yield and Overcome," is not an empty phrase.
  True wholeness is achieved by blending with life.
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  Elsewhere

  The Tao Te Ching is a cool book to read.
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  awildflower

  I love the Tao! I actually have read Wayne Dyer's Change Your Thoughts, Change Your Life. He took a whole year off of his life, literally gave everything away he owned and lived the Tao for a year. He would read a verse, stew over it for four days, and then write his thoughts on it. It is a great book to have. I try to read a verse everyday. It's so much more meaningful and powerful and so full of awareness than the Daily Text ever was!..........wf
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  Farkel

  There's more beneficial advice on how to live a happy and productive life in 5 pages of the Tao de Ching than there is in the entire Bible. And "God" isn't even specifically mentioned, either!

  Farkel
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  Open mind

  Thanks Jeff!

  I think I'll print out a couple pages real quick and take them to the K Hall.

  Namaste,

  om
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  Satanus

  Thanks for the reminder.

  S
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  I quit!

  Good to keep in mind Jeff

  Here is one I think is very appropriate for people who are struggling about leaving the Watchtower.

  "Care about peoples approval and you will become their slave"
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  BurnTheShips

  I need to get a copy, truly. Wow, just wow. Verse 1:

  The tao that can be told
  is not the eternal Tao
  The name that can be named
  is not the eternal Name.
  
  The unnamable is the eternally real.
  Naming is the origin
  of all particular things.
  
  Free from desire, you realize the mystery.
  Caught in desire, you see only the manifestations.
  
  Yet mystery and manifestations
  arise from the same source.
  This source is called darkness.
  
  Darkness within darkness.
  The gateway to all understanding.
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  SirNose586

  I was very impressed with the brevity of it all. All 81 (verses? chapters? lessons?) are on one page at sacred-texts.com.
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  BurnTheShips

  And "God" isn't even specifically mentioned, either!

  I've been doing some reading here now, and it seems to my ignorant self, that this Tao is the same as God--as I understand Him. It seems incredible to me, how people on opposite sides of the globe can come to the same understandings regarding Tao/God. There is something here that is not of ourselves at play.

  BTS