Favorite Daoist Quote

[OldDog]

What is much and what is little? Be grateful (to Heaven) for what you have.  - Chuangtse

[Marblehead]

The highest good is like water; water is good at benefiting the Ten Thousand Things.

[OldDog]

A man cannot see his own image in flowing water but sees it in water which is at rest.

[rideforever]

On 16/12/2017 at 4:26 PM, cold said:

Because nothing needs to be done?

 

If you do not resist yourself then you will act, that is non-action, ultimately.

[Marblehead]

21 minutes ago, rideforever said:

 

If you do not resist yourself then you will act, that is non-action, ultimately.

Yeah, I like to call it wu wei as opposed to non-action because there is action within the state of wu wei.

 

[Marblehead]

It is only because it does not compete, that therefore it is without fault (water and the Sage). 

[Marblehead]

When the mind is overworked without stop it becomes worried, and worry causes exhaustion. 

[silent thunder]

Worry is a misuse of imagination.  ~anon

[OldDog]

Looking upward, we contemplate with its help the signs in the heavens; looking down, we examine the lines of the earth. Thus we come to know the circumstances of the dark and the light. Going back to the beginnings of things and pursuing them to the end, we come to know the lessons of birth and of death.

 

- Ta Chuan: The Great Commentary 

 

 

Edited August 26, 2018 by OldDog
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[Marblehead]

The nature of water is that it becomes clear when left alone and becomes still when undisturbed; so too the nature of man. 

[Monkey]

Demons fear the Ruyi Jingu Bang

The Great Sage's weapon multiply in number

1 becomes 10;100;1000

His weapons fly and think for themselves

Their dancing fills the sky as if with Dragons

The Great Sage roars with laughter showing True Power

[Monkey]

Evil spirits fear the As-You-Will-Cudgel

Monkey King's weapon multiply in number

10 becomes 100;1000;10000

His weapons whirl and glide, thinking for themselves

Their wild dancing fills the sky as if with dragons

Monkey King roars with laughter conferring Buddhist Might!

[Monkey]

Mount Hua Guo is a prosperous land, indeed here is a Poem to prove it:

 

Fruits abundant in all four seasons

Temples that are meant to last forever

Shining with the glory of the Sun and the splendor of the Moon

Living here makes one prosperous

You can say that it rivals paradise

[Marblehead]

Hi Monkey.  Although I don't venture into those aspects of Taoism those are pretty good quotes.  I couldn't read "Journey To The West".  Too much Buddhism in it for me.

 

[lifeforce]

“Golden Elixir is another name for one’s fundamental nature. There is no other Golden Elixir outside one's fundamental nature. All human beings have this Golden Elixir complete in themselves: it is entirely realized in everybody. It is neither more in a sage, nor less in an ordinary person. It is the seed of the Immortals and the Buddhas, the root of the worthies and the sages.”

 

Liu Yiming (1734-1821)

[Marblehead]

When something reaches its limit it reverses its direction; when the end is reached, the beginning begins.

[Marblehead]

Our knowledge does not extend beyond the material universe. 

[Marblehead]

To realize that matter is matter is to reach the infinite with matter. 

[OldDog]

When the distinctions of true and false appeared, then Tao lost its wholeness. And when Tao lost its wholeness, individual bias
began. - Chuangtse 

[Marblehead]

Tranquillity is the lord of agitation; quiescence is the master of the hasty.

[OldDog]

Oftentimes, one strips oneself of passion

In order to see the Secret of Life;
Oftentimes, one regards life with passion,

In order to see its manifest forms.

 

- Laotse

[Marblehead]

Passion still resides within, thank you.

 

[OldDog]

It's a human condition.

[Marblehead]

Reversal is the movement of Tao; gentleness is the function of Tao.

[whitesilk]

'The ocean is vast because it takes in what it puts out.' -wen-tzu

 

This means, in my opinion, accepting the negative and the positive. One must not ignore negativity (even though at times I do). There is another that relates, I've just read it somewhere.

 

'The wise turn calamity into fortune.'