Sustain contracts

Reconciling a great hatred,

surely there will remain some hatred.

Whereby to make good?

Therefore the holy man holds the left side of his contract

and not exacts from others.

Have virtue keep contract.

Have not virtue insist on claims.

Heaven's reason has no preference

always helps the good man.

 

To forget knowledge

Attend to learning daily he gains.

Practises reason daily he diminishes.

He diminishes himself and again he diminishes.

Thus attains unto non-doing.

He does non-doing yet there is nothing undone.

To take the empire always he uses non-diplomacy

When using diplomacy not is he fit thereby to take the empire.

 

Nature's mystery

Nature's mystery
Beauty has no rationale
Heartbeats no mechanics.

Bird tale

Bird tale:

Beauty of work

Beauty of

not for me alone.

"You get ...."

“You get what you put out”

Treasures of the Thunder Dragon

"Our thoughts ought by instinct ...."

Our thoughts ought by instinct to fly upwards from animals, men and natural objects to their creator. If created things are so utterly lovely, how gloriously beautiful must he be who made them! The wisdom of the worker is revealed in his handiwork.

--> Anthony of Padua

"But that's the whole aim ...."

But that's the whole aim of civilization: to make everything a source of enjoyment.

--> Leo Tolstoy

"The Great Way is not difficult ...."

The Great Way is not difficult for those who have no preferences. When love and hate are both absent everything becomes clear and undisguised. Make the smallest distinction, however, and heaven and earth are set infinitely apart. If you wish to see the truth then hold no opinion for or against. The struggle of what one likes and what one dislikes is the disease of the mind.

--> Sengcan, Hsin-hsin Ming