Chinese Notebooks | TAO Top 10 | The Sage | Jade Flower Palace
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Chinese Notebooks
Like waves upon the sand |
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Chinese Painters
About the year 1215 |
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Action
Non-Action |
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Maybe
Maybe Not |
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All Things
Single Agreement |
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Emperor Shun
Corrected His Person |
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Thought
Calling Everything By Its Right Name |
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Time
Natural Flow |
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Climbing
Harmony |
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Water
Natural Property |
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Standing at the center
The enigma of the universe |
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The Master said
Is this not, after all, delightful? |
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TAO Top 10
The Tao de Ching, first ten verses |
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One
The Tao that can be told |
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Two
Under heaven all can see beauty |
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Three
Not exalting the gifted |
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Four
The Tao is an empty vessel |
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Five
Heaven and earth are ruthless |
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Six
The valley spirit never dies |
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Seven
Heaven and earth last forever |
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Eight
The highest good is like water |
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Nine
Better stop short |
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Ten
Carrying body and soul |
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The Sage
Banners waving in the wind of the circling sun |
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The Great Man Is He
who is in harmony in his attributes with heaven + earth; |
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He Only Is The Sage
who knows to advance + to retire |
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Men of affairs are proud of their cunning and skills,
But in the TAO they still have much to learn. |
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Can sagehood be attained through study?
It can. |
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Hence The Solution For The Sage
who would change and transform the world lies in water. |
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A spirit lives on the mountain.
His mind is free from all thought. |
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The Superior Man
Thus the superior man |
| Taoist Chronicles |
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But when you know
What is eternally so |
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Jade Flower Palace
Tu Fu (A.D. 713-770) |