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“Purposeful action leads to exhaustion. The Tao is empty and acts without purpose. Hence, it can’t be exhausted.”
Red Pine • Lao-tzu's Taoteching
Practice not-doing and everything will fall into place. —LAO-TZU, Tao Te Ching
Jon Kabat-Zinn • Full Catastrophe Living, Revised Edition: How to cope with stress, pain and illness using mindfulness meditation
Tao “covers the ten thousand things like a garment but does not claim to be master over them” (Ch. XXXIV). Lao-tzu describes it as “Nothing,”4 by which he means, says Wilhelm, only its “contrast with the world of reality.” Lao-tzu describes its nature as follows: We put thirty spokes together and call it a wheel; But it is on the space where there
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But his name was not Lao-tzu, which means “Old Master.” Ssu-ma Ch’ien says his family name was Li, his personal name was Erh (meaning “ear,” hence, learned), and his posthumous name was Tan (meaning “long-eared,” hence, wise).
Red Pine • Lao-tzu's Taoteching
politic.” Running through the discussion is the notion of achieving a calm and peaceful mind by using the “wisdom mind” to govern the “emotional mind”—to achieve, among other goals, a union of body and spirit and a deep connection to the natural world.