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To be alive and to seek advantages is the beginning of death. Not to be alive and to get rid of advantages is the beginning of life. Those who don’t work to live live long.”
Red Pine • Lao-tzu's Taoteching
As for those who set forth on this path, the Maha Prajnaparamita Sutra says a bodhisattva is “anyone who ceaselessly seeks unexcelled, perfect enlightenment as well as the happiness and welfare of all beings.”
Red Pine • The Diamond Sutra: The Perfection of Wisdom
Nothing is lost, nothing is created, everything is transformed
– Antoine Lavoisier
as seen from an ancient yet ever-fresh perspective.
Yang Jwing-Ming • The Dao De Jing: A Qigong Interpretation
The world is a process of becoming; it is not being.
Stability, if stagnant, cannot last.
This verse reminds me of Confucius’ words: “When I was young, historians still left blanks” (Lunyu: 15.25). Not being a historian, I have proceeded despite uncertainty.
Red Pine • Lao-tzu's Taoteching
As the 6th century Chinese Zen master Seng-ts’an explains: If you want the truth to stand clear before you, never be for or against. The struggle between “for” and “against” is the mind’s worst disease.2
Tim Urban • What's Our Problem?: A Self-Help Book for Societies
CONFUCIUS says, “The gentleman is not a tool” (Lunyu: 2.12).