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In the beginning was the Tao.
All things issue from it;
all things return to it.
To find the origin,
trace back the manifestations.
When you recognize the children
and find the mother,
you will be free of sorrow.
If you close your mind in judgements
and traffic with desires,
your heart will be troubled.
If you keep your mind from judging
and aren't led by the senses,
your heart will find peace.
Seeing into darkness is clarity.
Knowing how to yield is strength.
Use your own light
and return to the source of light.
This is called practicing eternity.
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The great Way is easy,
yet people prefer the side paths.
Be aware when things are out of balance.
Stay centered within the Tao.
When rich speculators prosper
While farmers lose their land;
when government officials spend money
on weapons instead of cures;
when the upper class is extravagant and irresponsible
while the poor have nowhere to turn-
all this is robbery and chaos.
It is not in keeping with the Tao.
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Whoever is planted in the Tao
will not be rooted up.
Whoever embraces the Tao
will not slip away.
Her name will be held in honor
from generation to generation.
Let the Tao be present in your life
and you will become genuine.
Let it be present in your family
and your family will flourish.
Let it be present in your country
and your country will be an example
to all countries in the world.
Let it be present in the universe
and the universe will sing.
How do I know this is true?
By looking inside myself.
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He who is in harmony with the Tao
is like a newborn child.
Its bones are soft, its muscles are weak,
but its grip is powerful.
It doesn't know about the union
of male and female,
yet its penis can stand erect,
so intense is its vital power.
It can scream its head off all day,
yet it never becomes hoarse,
so complete is its harmony.
The Master's power is like this.
He lets all things come and go
effortlessly, without desire.
He never expects results;
thus he is never disappointed.
He is never disappointed;
thus his spirit never grows old.
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Those who know don't talk.
Those who talk don't know.
Close your mouth,
block off your senses,
blunt your sharpness,
untie your knots,
soften your glare,
settle your dust.
This is the primal identity.
Be like the Tao.
It can't be approached or withdrawn from,
benefited or harmed,
honored or brought into disgrace.
It gives itself up continually.
That is why it endures.
Small Men, or the Corrupt Men, the Mediocre Men, defend their actions by saying that they are loved, anointed by the great masses of people. When in reality they cheated their way to power.
Small Men defend their grissly acts by saying that they have conviction. When in fact, they merely have desire. Small Men say they must fight against the Great Men. But naturally, they always do! Because the interest of Small Men, will never coincide with the Virtue of Great Men.
Small Men are wont to outburts. They credit this to sensitivity. They hide under the vestige of the pulse of the people, that in actual conditions does not exist. It is merely the false - not the pulse - reading of the Small Men. Done for their own convenience.
Small Men make promises, but are never wont to fulfill them. Because they are heartless, soulless and have no compunction to hurt others.
Small Men are Vultures and Parasites of the first order. They thrive on the life energy of others and enrich themselves at the expense of their fellow humans with no guilt, remorse nor conscience.
Small Men blame others for being dubious, but the dubiousness in others is a mirror of the Small Men's criminal intents.
Small Men also keep to their oaths to their bedmates that are as corrupt, vile and filthy as them. Because they always need allies by their side by the dangers created of their own doing and undoing.
Many Small Men thinking in their small ways, with their small brains, believe that if they consolidate their power, they will be immune to the turning of the cycles full circle. That even with immense power, the end must come, and things shall come to pass.
That is the way of the Tao: Everything must come to Pass.
That, the Great Men always know, so they let things pass and are silent and peaceful in the face of the onslaught of Small Men at their very doorsteps.
Even under severe criticism, Great Men do not talk, for it is a sign that one is a Small Man and doesn't know.
And so it will come to pass, that the Corruption in Government will end at one point and selected persons will be declared as the real embarrassment to the country. An abomination in the eyes of the world. That is the Way of Things. That is the Way of the Tao.
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