Taoism Quotes - Page 15

• We can think of descriptions almost as computer languages, an operative description that only deals with very simple operations. Its code is sex - Male, female, dark, light, up down, in out - its the language of duality.

  Frederick Lenz

  Sex, Dark, Simple

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• Battles are followed by years of famine.

  Laozi

  Years, Battle, Famine

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• In the mind engaged in struggling with hardship, one always finds something delightful. The sorrow of disappointment arises in the complacency of satisfaction.

  Zicheng Hong

  Disappointment, Struggle, Sorrow

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• Those in public office who do not love the people are thieves stealing salaries. Those who teach but do not themselves practice what they teach are mere talkers. Those who try to do successful work without considering development of character will find it insubstantial.

  Zicheng Hong

  Character, Successful, Practice

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• Tao loves and nourishes all things, but does not dominate it over them.

  Laozi

  Doe, Tao, All Things

  Laozi (1959). “Tao Tê Ching: A New Translation”

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• Alow immortality to work through you. Be but a mere instrument. And that instrument should be so absorbed in the perfect perfection of existence, that it knows not even that it is absorbed.

  Frederick Lenz

  Perfect, Immortality, Should

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• To find the Tao, there is nowhere you need to search. If it is not inside you, it is not the Tao.

  Confucius

  Needs, Tao, Ifs

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• Thorn bushes grow where armies have camped.

  Laozi

  Army, Grows

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• When Simplicity is broken up, it is made into instruments. Evolved individuals who employ them, are made into leaders. In this way, the Great System is United.

  Laozi

  Broken, Simplicity, Leader

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• When good thing are accomplished, it does not claim (or name) them. This is Te, which is close in meaning to power or virtue. It is something within a person, and it is enhanced by following the Tao, or 'that from which nothing can deviate'.

  Laozi

  Names, Doe, Virtue

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• The one who can dissolve her mind will suddenly discover the Tao at her feet.

  Laozi

  Feet, Mind, Tao

  Laozi, Brian Browne Walker (1992). “Hua Hu Ching: Teachings of Lao Tzu”

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• The Tao of the sage is work without effort.

  Laozi

  Work, Effort, Sage

  Laozi (1997). “道德经”, Vintage

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• When you accurately perceive the fluidity of things, you can also begin to perceive the constancy behind them: the creative, transformative, boundless, immutable Tao.

  Laozi

  Creative, Fluidity, Constancy

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• Be in harmony with the Tao, with the basic principles of creation. To not be in harmony with that flow, no matter how hard you meditate, you will not be happy and you won't be liberated.

  Frederick Lenz

  Principles, Matter, Flow

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• What we are seeking is the nexus of all possible worlds and states of mind, which is within us. The source of yin and yang is within you.

  Frederick Lenz

  Mind, Yang, World

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• If we're distracted from the continual flow of perfect mind that we're in, suddenly everything configures, everything solidifies. Suddenly a shape appears out of flux, a world appears, karmas appear, pasts, futures, presents, time structures, ying and yang appear.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Past, Perfect

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• What we're seeking to do is become transparent. A transparent window on reality. But that takes time to do. We're starting with a very solid, objectified view of ourselves and existence

  Frederick Lenz

  Reality, Views, Window

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• You are not anyone or anything in particular. You are awareness itself. You don't have a particular form. You contain everything or you are contained by all things.

  Frederick Lenz

  Awareness, Form, Particular

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• In the pursuit of learning, every day something is acquired. In the pursuit of Tao, every day something is dropped.

  Laozi

  Learning, Pursuit, Tao Te Ching Leadership

  Laozi (1997). “道德经”, Vintage

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• The value comes from what is there, but the use comes from what is not there.

  Laozi

  Use, Values

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• Understand this if nothing else: spiritual freedom and oneness with the Tao are not randomly bestowed gifts, but the rewards of conscious self-transformation and self-evolution.

  Laozi

  Spiritual, Self, Oneness

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• Thirty spokes are joined in the wheel's hub. The hole in the middle makes it useful.

  Laozi

  Wheels, Thirty, Holes

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• Make the small big and the few many.

  Laozi

  Bigs

  Laozi, Chichung Huang (2003). “Tao te ching: a literal translation with an introduction, notes, and commentary”, Asian Humanities Pr

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• The most straight seems curved.

  Laozi

  Seems

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• Sometimes gain comes from losing, and sometimes loss comes from gaining.

  Laozi

  Loss, Gains, Losing

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