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Can you coax your mind from its wondering and keep to the original oneness? Can you let your body become supple as a new born child's? Can
you cleanse your inner vision until you see nothing but the light? Can you love people and leave them without imposing your will? Can you deal with the most vital matters by letting events take their course? Can you step back from your own mind and thus understand all things? Giving birth and nourishing. Having without possessing. Acting with no expectation. Leading and trying not to control. This is the supreme virtue.
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We join spokes together in a wheel. But it is the center wheel that makes the wagon move. We shape clay into a pot but it is the emptiness inside that holds whatever we want. We hammer wood for a house, it is the inner space that makes it livable. We work with being but non-being is what we use.
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Color blinds the eye. Sounds blind the ear. Flavors numb the taste. Thoughts weaken the mind.Desires wither the heart. The Master observes the
world but trust his inner vision. He allows things to come and go. His heart is as open as the sky.
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Success is as dangerous as failure. Hope is as hollow as fear. What does it mean the success is as dangerous as failure? Whether you go up or down the ladder, your position is shaky. When you stand with your two feet on the ground you always keep your balance. What does it mean that hope is as hollow as fear? Hope and fear are both phantoms that arise from thinking of the self. When we don't see the self as self what do we have to fear? See the world as yourself. Have faith in the ways things are. Love the world as yourself then you can care for all things.
14. Look and it can't be seen. Listen and it can't be heard. Reach and it can't be grasped. Above it isn't bright. Below it isn't dark. Seamless unnamable, it returns to the realm of nothing. Form that in clouds all forms. Image without image. Subtle beyond all conception and there is not beginning. Follow it and there is no end. You can't know it but you can be it. At ease in your own life. Just realize where you come from. This is the essence of wisdom.
15. The Ancient Masters were profound and subtle. Their wisdom was unfathomable. There is no way to describe it. All we can describe is their appearances. They were careful as someone who crosses over an iced over stream, alert as a warrior in enemy territory, courteous as a gusty fluid on melting ice. Shapeable as a block of wood. Receptive as a valley. Clear as a glass of water. Do you have the patience to wait until your mud settles and the water clears? Can you remain unmoving until the action arises by itself? The Master doesn't seek fulfillment, not seeking or expecting. She is present and can welcome all things.
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