Sublime

sages thus seek what no one else seeks they don’t prize hard-to-get goods they study what no one else studies they turn to what others pass by to help all things remain natural they dare not act

So the Dao-aware forget themselves and find constancy in change.

By being himself, free from roles, rules, obligations, he is in a state of complete naturalness. Lao Tzu said in his ancient text the Tao Te Ching, “When nothing is done, nothing is left undone.” I suspect he was pointing to this state of completeness, when one is absolutely present in life. The mastery is that there is no trying.

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While reading Scripture on Clarity and Stillness, I see the passage, “You enter the perfect Dao, you attain the Dao. And even though it is called attaining the Dao. In truth, there is nothing to attain”(Rinaldini 2010, 4). This passage is another reference to how Zuowang appears in Daoist scripture. There is nothing to attain. We are already in pos

Wu-hsin is action on any level whatsoever, physical or psychic, without trying at the same moment to observe and check the action from outside.

“Dwelling in one's true abode, unconcerned with that without. The river flows tranquilly on and the flowers are red. From the beginning, truth is clear. Poised in silence, I observe the forms of integration and disintegration. One who is not attached to "form" need not be "reformed." The water is emerald, the mountain is indigo,