bkadoctaj's Daily Tao

bkadoctaj · Oct 4, 2008

Androgenicx said:

love reading this thread, very grounding
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Yeah, I go here after being in the Politics section...

fuzzyl0g1c · Oct 4, 2008

bkadoctaj said:

Yeah, I go here after being in the Politics section...
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haha, it is a nice balance.

thegreenfairy · Oct 4, 2008

thanks

bkadoctaj · Oct 9, 2008

Wow, the Dao sure hasn't been pushing me along on this much recently.

Verse 31: War

The finest weapons are the worst evils.
They are universally loathed.
Therefore, help guide your nation to the non-aggressive path.

The wise hold steady on the passive yin path.
Those who are aggressive prefer the active yang.

Weapons are instruments of coercion and devils of death.
Resort to them only in dire necessity.
Peace is our natural state of being.

If weapons must be wielded to defend ourselves,
and we are victorious, never rejoice.
Can there be joy over the slaughter of others?

On joyous occasions,
we attune with the yang side.
On sad occasions, with the yin.

During battle, the soldiers on are on the left yang side,
engaging in the combat.
The commanders are on the right yin side,
observing the action.

After the battle, the soldiers who have slain others,
move to the yin side and mourn,
while the commanders, now on the yang side,
are celebrating victory even though it is a funeral.
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Verse 32: Is It Not Time to Unify the Fragments?

Although the Great Integrity is infinite,
and therefore undefined,
it is silent in its Primal Simplicity.

Nothing is its superior.
When humanity embraces the Great Integrity,
all life on earth will be grateful.

All yin and yang will be harmonized
in the sweet daily dew, and peace will reign
on the planet without anyone commanding it.

When the Primal Simplicity atomized
into the 10,000 fragments, with their 10,000 names,
our planet became endangered.

Now - are there not enough fragments?
Is it not time to stop and return to the universal sea
from which all streams emerged?

To return to the Great Integrity
is to obliterate
the list of the 10,000 endangered species.
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Verse 33: Who Are You?

If you understand others, you are astute.
If you understand yourself, you are insightful.

If you master others, you are uncommonly forceful.
If you master yourself you have uncommon inner strength.

If you know when you have enough, you are wealthy.
If you carry your intentions to completion, you are resolute.

If you find your roots and nourish them, you will know longevity.
If you live a long creative life, you will leave an eternal legacy.
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Verse 34: Humility and Greatness

The Great Integrity is unboundable like a flood.
In cannot be manipulated this or that way.
It is the very wellspring of life,
always outpouring, never commanding.

Although the source for every need,
it is never demanding.
It does its work silently
and unpretentiously.

All return to the Great Integrity
as our liberating universal home.
By never seeking greatness,
greatness permeates in deed.
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Medicine Al · Oct 9, 2008

Greed is expensive.
Hoarders are destined to for a great loss.

A content person will not be disgraced.
A person that knows when to stop is in no danger.

-Lao Tzu

Ideally,
The country is small.
The population is small.

There have boats and carts,
but no-one goes anywhere.

There are weapons and armour,
but they stay in their boxes.
-Lao Tzu

bkadoctaj · Oct 10, 2008

The Dao- I mean, Dow- is in decline.

Verse 35: The Consummate Food and the Ultimate Music

When you merge with the universe,
the whole world is attracted to you,
discovering through you
its own security, peace and good health.

Passing guests may stop by-at first attracted
to your savory food and inspirational music.
But they might leave more deeply enriched
than they could have anticipated-

Because the silent song of the Tao
is the ultimate music,
and the infinite delicacy of Tao
is the consummate nourishment.
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Verse 36: Too Much Invites Disaster

What is overexpanded becomes diminished.
What is too strong becomes weakened.
What is too high is cut down.
What is overpossessed becomes impoverished.

It is in the nature of process that in the final stages,
those who are overextended,
overarmed and overprivileged,
shall be overcome.

Disaster stalks the fish
which swims up from its deep water home,
and the army which threatens to conquer
those beyond its own borders.
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Meek inheriting the earth?

Verse 37: The Primal Simplicity

The Great Integrity imposes no action,
yet it leaves nothing undone.
Were governments to embrace it,
everything would develop naturally.

If thereafter an old ego should reincarnate,
the already permeated Primal Simplicity
would neutralize it in its pervasive silence.

Returning to silence is returning to peace.
Returning to peace, the world reharmonizes itself.
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Verse 38: Distinguishing the Highest from the Lowest Morality

You can readily recognize the highest virtuousness
because it never places itself on display.
You can readily recognize the lowest virtuousness
because it is always announcing itself.

The highest virtue quietly serves universal needs.
The lowest virtue actively strives for personal success.
The highest morality serves common needs.
The lowest morality is self-serving.

True benevolence
acts without intention.
But when rituals go unheeded,
they are enforced with rolled-up sleeves.

Failing the Great Integrity, we resort to virtuousness.
Failing virtuousness, we resort to moralizing.
Failing moralizing, we resort to dogma,
the most superficial form of faith and loyalty,
and the nourishment for confusion.

Natural persons are attracted
to substance rather than form,
to the nutritious fruit rather than the enticing flower,
to that which dwells deeply within,
rather than to that which clings superficially to the surface.
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Verse 39: Then and Now

In ancient times, all entities had their own integrity and function.
The sky was clear and endless.
The earth was calm and firm.
The gods were charged with spiritual powers.
The wells were clean and full.
The 10,000 creatures were healthy and fecund.
Leaders were elected to plan the work and defense of the community.
How wondrously concordant!

If the sky were not endless, it could have fallen.
If the earth were not firm, it could have burst.
If the gods did not exercise their spiritual powers,
they would have been abandoned.
If the wells were not full, they could have dried up.
If the 10,000 creatures were not productive,
they could have become extinct.
If the leaders did not plan the work and defense of the community,
they would have been replaced.
In this way, each entity had its own essentiality,
each part complementing every other.

Nowadays, when the privileged among us identify themselves
with the orphan, the widower and the hungry one,
it may be an opportunistic appeal for the support of the lowly,
or a realization that loudly trumpeting self-glory negates itself,
or a premonition that shining like jade, and resounding like stone chimes
attracts the desperate adventurers among those deprived of hope,
inviting disaster among those who create these deprivations.
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Verse 40: All Is Paradox

The movement of the Great Integrity is infinite,
yet its character is passive.
Being defines every form of life,
yet all originate in, and return to, non-being.
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bkadoctaj · Oct 12, 2008

On-word ho!

Verse 41: Observing and Nourishing Paradox

When most people hear about the Great Integrity,
they waiver between belief and disbelief.
When wise people hear about the Great Integrity,
they diligently follow its path.
When ignorant people hear about it
they laugh out loud!
By this very laughter, we know its authenticity.

It is said that -
enlightenment appears dark,
the progressive way appears retrograde,
the smooth way appears jagged,
the highest peak of revelation appears empty like a valley,
the cleanest appears to be soiled,
the greatest abundance appears insufficient,
the most enduring inner strength appears like weakness,
and creativity appears imitative.

Great talents mature slowly.
Great sounds are silent.
Great forms look shapeless.
Transcendent squareness has no corners.

The Great Integrity hides behind all forms,
stubbornly nourishing the paradoxes that can enlighten us.
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Verse 42: The Principles of Transformation

The Great Integrity expresses one.
One manifests as two
Two is transformed into three.
And three generates all the myriad entities of the universe.

Every entity always returns to yin after engaging yang.
The fusion of these two opposites
births the Vital Energy that sustains the harmony of life.

But for most people, this harmony is decimated
by inheriting a condition
of relative misery, scarcity and victimization.

Politicians cleverly pretend that they too originate
from the toxic soul of this misery,
even while designing the very laws
that legitimate victimization.

But watch out - those who hoard oversufficiency
will be diminished!
And those who are diminished
will become bountiful!

These commonly known truths
that common people teach each other,
are also my truths.

As you sow, so shall you reap.
Such is the heart of my teaching
in a world forced to live heartlessly.
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Verse 43: The Value of Minimums

That which is most tender
can overcome that which is most rigid.
That which has least substance
can penetrate that which has least space.

Acting without deliberate action,
and teaching without uttering a word
are rarely practiced.
So few find their way to the Great Integrity!
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Verse 44: Choices

Which do you value more -
your wealth or your wellness?
Which is more harmful -
to lead or to lose?

The greatest is your attachment,
the more bereft is your release.
The more you hoard,
the less is left to enjoy.

Those on the path
to the Great Integrity
flow without forcing,
leaving no space for disasters.
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burnttwaffle · Oct 12, 2008

i love you

in a totally hetersexual way

tao FTW

bkadoctaj · Oct 12, 2008

burnttwaffle said:

i love you

in a totally hetersexual way

tao FTW
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Yin-yang.

Medicine Al · Oct 12, 2008

Those who know, do not speak.
Those who speak, do not know.
-Lao Tzu

bkadoctaj · Oct 12, 2008

Moinz.

Verse 45: Illusion and Reality

Completeness can seem incomplete,
yet the completeness that we achieve can be remarkable.
Fullness can seem empty,
yet the fullness that we achieve can be very useful.

Truth can appear as lie.
Straightness can appear as twisted.
Skillfulness can appear to be clumsy.
Eloquence can sound like foolishness.

But the dialectic of yin and yang is not illusory.
Activity can overcome cold.
Tranquility can overcome heat.
And peacefulness is the natural seed of a violent world.
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Verse 46: Enough Is Enough!

When the Great Integrity permeated our lives,
freely galloping horses fertilized the fields.

When the Great Integrity was lost,
war horses were bred in the countryside.

There is no greater calamity
than acquisitiveness racing out of control.

Only those who know when enough is enough
can ever have enough.
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Verse 47: Going Beyond

We can understand the world as it is
without leaving our home.
We can understand the world as it might be
without peering dreamily out our window.

The further we go,
the less we know.

Wise people understand the 10,000 things
without going to each one.
They know them without having to look at each one,
and they transform all without acting on each one.
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burnttwaffle · Oct 13, 2008

WHERE IS MY DAILY TAO

I WAKE UP, LOOKING FOR TAO

AND ITS NOT FUCKING HERE?!?!?"

WHAT IS THIS SHIT

unfucking beiliveable

get your ass outa bed and give me some goddam tao!

just playin, love you mr. woodfine

-BW

Medicine Al · Oct 13, 2008

If you stand on tiptoe, you'll be unsteady.
If you run with long strides you can't keep it up.
If you show off, no one will be impressed.
-Lao Tzu

burnttwaffle · Oct 13, 2008

good choice AL

and i got my Lao fix

haha thanx you guys this stuff is really great

Medicine Al · Oct 13, 2008

Self-righteous people will be disrespected.
Self-centered people will be unloved.
Glory seekers don't attract followers.

-Lao Tzu

citizen abuse · Oct 13, 2008

OK, there. I've posted to your thread. Now are you satisfied?

bkadoctaj · Oct 13, 2008

Sorry burnttwaffle... the Tao taketh its time.

Verse 48: All Is Done Without Doing

To obtain a diploma requires the storage of trivia.
To obtain the Great Integrity requires their abandonment.

The more we are released from vested fragments of knowledge,
the less we are compelled to take vested actions,
until all is done without doing.

When the ego interferes
in the rhythms of process,
there is so much doing!
But nothing is done.
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Verse 49: Wisdom

Wise people are not absorbed
in their own needs.
They take the needs of all people as their own.

They are good to the good.
But they are also good to those
who are still absorbed in their own needs.

Why?
Because goodness is in the very nature
of the Great Integrity.

Wise people trust
those who trust.
But they also trust those who do not trust.

Why?
Because trusting is in the very nature
of the Great Integrity.

Wise people merge with all others
rather than stand apart judgmentally.
In this way, all begin to open their ears and hearts,
more prepared to return to the innocence of childhood.
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Verse 50: The Forces of Life and Death

Every one of us is born,
and everyone dies.

However, three of every ten
seem to be born to live,
three seem to be born to die,
and there live lifefully or deathfully
according to their chosen life styles.

But only one in ten
seems to survive all dangers.
When walking through the jungle,
she never fears the rhinoceros
because there seems to be no place in her to butt his horns.
She never fears the tiger
because there seems to be no place to sink his claws,
and she never fears weapons
because there seems to be no place their steel can penetrate.

This is the fulfilled person of the Great Integrity
who leaves no space in life for premature death.
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Verse 51: Natural Birthing

All in the universe derive from the Primal Integrity.
The interaction of yin and yang shapes and nourishes them,
and evolution ever transforms them
in their endless ecological dance.

Therefore, in its own way,
every entity celebrates its Primal Mother.
Not out of any mandate.
Not out of any obligation.
But solely as the expression of its own integrity.
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bkadoctaj · Oct 13, 2008

Let's go all the Way back...

Verse 52: Returning to Our Origins

Everything has a common origin
that we might call the Mother of the Universe.

Once in pre-conscious times, we were all a part of this Mother,
just as we-all her children-were part of each other.

This was when we were all umbilically still attached
to the Great Integrity.

Some thousands of years ago, our species alone
issued a declaration of independence from our Mother.
Now it is time to reunite with her.

Thereafter, we will never any more suffer the 10,000 miseries
that only we humans have acquired.

Block all the loopholes! Shut all the doors to the old temptations!
And we will never again feel deprived.

If we crawl through the loopholes, if we race through the gate
back to the 10,000 addictions, we will never be fulfilled.

How shall we know the Great Integrity?
When our insights proliferate even in the smallest matters.
When our strength is boundless even while ever yielding.

We can keep our outsights when returning to our insights.
In this way, we will reharmonize with our Mother,
celebrating the Great Integrity on a higher level.
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Verse 53: Not Yet on the Way

Those who have the smallest grain of wisdom
would want to walk the simple path of the Great Integrity.
Their only fear would be to go astray.

Indeed, there is a good reason to fear
when most of the world is piled into two wagons
racing toward each other on a single lane road.

In one over-crowded wagon is the vast majority
who live in weedy fields
with empty granaries.

In the other wagon are those
whose garments are opulently embroidered.
They gorge themselves
on rich foods far beyond their appetites,
and guzzle their inebriating drinks far beyond their thirst.

They accumulate wealth
even beyond their avaricious cravings
while armed to the teeth against their starving neighbors.

Surely such thievish degradation
couldn't be the way to the Great Integration.
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Verse 54: The Whole Is in Each Part

Whatever is planted deeply is not easily uprooted.
Whatever is embraced sincerely does not crave escape.
Ever since we lost our intuition as our main guide in life,
these virtues have had to be consciously cultivated to survive.

Cultivate then in yourself and they will be genuine.
Cultivate them in your family and they will surely flourish.
Cultivate them in your community and they will be long lasting.
Cultivate them in your country and they will be widely propagated.
Cultivate them in the world and they will certainly become universal.

In this way you will know others by what you do yourself.
You will know families by what you contribute as a family.
You will know the world by what you do as a planetary citizen.

How do we know all this?
Because we know that each part is the whole,
and the whole is in each part.
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Verse 55: The Promises of the Great Integrity

When we will live in complete integrity,
we will be innocent like newborn babies.
Wasps and scorpions will not sting us.
Wild beasts will not maul us.
Birds of prey will not seize us.

Our bones will be pliable, our sinews soft.
Yet our grip will be firm.
Even before we have known conjugality,
our sexuality will be easily aroused
because we will be so virile.

We'll sing all day long without becoming hoarse
because we'll be in full harmony.
To be in harmony
is to live in the Great Integrity.
To live in the Great Integrity is the ultimate wisdom.

However, to interfere with nature is to seek control.
To seek control is to create dis-stress.
To create dis-stress produces exhaustion.
All these negations of the Great Integrity
also negate life and its longevity.
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Verse 56: How to Prepare for the Great Integrity

Those who know don't lecture.
Those who lecture don't know.

To prepare they way for the Great Integrity-
Close the rationalizing routes!
Shut the gloomy gates!
Blunt the sharp edges!
Release those who are tethered!
Soften the blinding lights!
Unite the world!

We cannot achieve the Great Integrity
through intimacy or emotional detachment,
nor through posturing or humility.

Since the Great Integrity makes no judgments or demands,
how will we know when it has arrived?
When it permeates us with its universal "is-ness".
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Medicine Al · Oct 14, 2008

Heaven and Earth last and last.
Why do they last so long?
Because they are not self-serving!
-Lao Tzu

Just as activity beats the cold,
and inactivity (stillness) beats the heat,
Purity and stillness can heal the world.
-Lao Tzu

Uookaa · Oct 14, 2008

Thanks! Clear sailing for the day. I really like those last two you put up, Al.

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