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WANG PI says, “Those who are good at governing use neither laws nor measures. Thus, the people find nothing to attack.
Red Pine • Lao-tzu's Taoteching
whatever goes on in their minds.
Chogyam Trungpa • True Perception: The Path of Dharma Art
The Taoist philosopher Chuang Tzu told this story:
Sharon Salzberg • Lovingkindness: The Revolutionary Art of Happiness (Shambhala Classics)
Inspired by the Confucian philosophy of the original nature of goodness and the Zen techniques of stilling the mind, a synthesis of the three philosophies—Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism—was reached. This form of Taoism is found in the teachings of two major Taoist sects today: the Complete Reality School (Ch’üan-chen) and the Earlier Heaven Way
... See moreEva Wong • Taoism: An Essential Guide
Ch’u was not like the other states in the Central Plains. Although the rulers of Ch’u traced their ancestry to a grandson of the Yellow Emperor, the patriarch of Chinese culture, they represented its shamanistic periphery. From their ancestral home in the Sungshan area, just south of the Yellow River, they moved, or were pushed, steadily southwest,
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SUNG CH’ANG-HSING says, “Seeking to make peace with others is the Way of Humankind. Not seeking to make peace but letting things make peace by themselves is the Way of Heaven. Despite action and the expenditure of energy, energy and action seldom bring peace. Sages therefore hold the left marker because they rely on nonaction and the subtlety of
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Alex Dobrenko • 4 cards
Under such circumstances the problem of discipline became paramount. The Zen masters were forced to concern themselves not only with the way of liberation from convention, but also with the instilling of convention, of ordinary manners and morals, in raw youths. The mature Western student who discovers an interest in Zen as a philosophy or as a way
... See moreAlan W. Watts • The Way of Zen
The Way of Life According to Lao Tzu, the Tao Te Ching as translated by Witter Bynner.