MEDITATIONS: TAO TE CHING CHAPTER SEVENTY-TWO
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MEDITATIONS: TAO TE CHING CHAPTER SEVENTY-TWO

Allow this revelation to wash over you in the same was a wise sage allows his own dark and terrifying revealed truths to wash over him. Recognize that there is no need for absolute power, absolute freedom, or absolute certainty. There is a world out there which we cannot fully know and to which we are subject—so what? It cannot be any other way

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MEDITATIONS: TAO TE CHING CHAPTER SEVENTY-ONE
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MEDITATIONS: TAO TE CHING CHAPTER SEVENTY-ONE

Perhaps if you are as I was (and, in a sense, still am), very scientifically and secularly minded, the idea of revealed wisdom and revelation sounds too much like magic, mysticism, and delusion to you. Your skepticism is reasonable and applicable in more cases than it is not. . . Now, with that out of the way, let us play with our conception of revelation for a moment.

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MEDITATIONS: TAO TE CHING CHAPTER SEVENTY
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MEDITATIONS: TAO TE CHING CHAPTER SEVENTY

We often get in our own way. We imagine obstacles on the Road and fall for mirages that tempt us off the Path. But really, living the Tao way of life is how most of nature lives. It is easy if it is allowed to happen, if we just habituate ourselves to the condition that is ever-changing-condition. And yet, this seems to be the one thing most of us refuse to do.

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MEDITATIONS: TAO TE CHING CHAPTER SIXTY-NINE
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MEDITATIONS: TAO TE CHING CHAPTER SIXTY-NINE

Whether we like it or not, whether we agree with it or not, some things are facts. Truth is made of the same stuff as the universe, unknowable in its entirety, but nonetheless impactful on our existence. Perhaps you find it difficult to accept: power is a fact, as are competence, hierarchy, success, failure, weakness, envy, pain, and terror. Unfairness is a fact as much as is fairness, and so is violence as much as peace.

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MEDITATIONS: TAO TE CHING CHAPTER SIXTY-EIGHT
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MEDITATIONS: TAO TE CHING CHAPTER SIXTY-EIGHT

Fear is not a virtue, and neither is weakness. These are cavities in a man’s personality through which arrogance and resentment take possession. Do not fall prey to them. Instead, cultivate bravery, strength, and judgement. Gain control over your life by nurturing yourself. Choose to build who you are into who you could be.

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MEDITATIONS: TAO TE CHING CHAPTER SIXTY-THREE
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MEDITATIONS: TAO TE CHING CHAPTER SIXTY-THREE

Taoist alchemy is action through inaction; it is the change of that which is outside through a transformation of what is within; it is the transmutation of meaning and significance of a substance, a person, or a situation via the transmutation of perception and attitude. And to attain to this seeming magic, one must be willing to venture into the depths.

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