Tuesday

dao simplicity

special strength to Jeremy today
纯度

simplicity Chinese characters for "simplicity"

windy feel watch as small figure crosses over bridge on the way through the beginning of a snow sorm



“Be aware of Tao.”
Isn’t that simple?
No — let’s reduce more:


“Be Tao.”




Why go through all this rigamorole? Why endlessly examine scriptures and debate obscure actions of long-dead saints and equally dead words? We need to affirm experiences over word, individuality over dogma.

After all this study of Tao, there should only be this simple conclusion: There is only us and Tao.

No, more simple still is to be Tao itself. Then everything that is Tao is us.

Those who follow Tao reduce everything in complexity until they reach the final irreducible conclusion: You are Tao. When you can be that without any contradictions, then you have truly achieved sublime simplicity.






simplicity
365 Tao
daily meditations
Deng Ming-Dao (author)

ISBN 0-06-250223-9

come back in windy snow
Coming Back in the Wind and Snow 1945
by Fu Bao Shi

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