Sublime

LI HSI-CHAI says, “The ancient masters of the Way had no ambition. Hence, they dulled their edges and did not insist on anything. They had no fear. Hence, they untied every tangle and avoided nothing. They did not care about beauty. Hence, they softened their light and forgot about themselves. They did not hate ugliness. Hence, they merged with the

Nature (the Dao) does not have emotions such as mercy, love, hate, glory, happiness, or sadness. Even

Having cleared its memory, the ant entered the maze. After navigating its twists and turns, it established another pattern in its simple consciousness: the Chinese character —mu, meaning “grave,” although the…

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Lao-tzu’s essential teaching of wu-wei, on the other hand, illustrates the futility of our attempts to control life. He emphasizes that it is only when you give up forcing or controlling anything that you begin to get the kind of control you always wanted, but never knew existed.

Pattabhi Jois describes Patañjali’s description of the five kleṣas as the means by which we can see how the symptoms of the heart shade and pervert our sensual experience of day-to-day living in mind and body.