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โˆž The 1st Step โˆž

Posted: Sat, Jan 29, 2005 08:58:27 AM

the reading this morning reminds me that surrender is not the only action that is required to truly work the 1st step. the list of actions including, 'seeking spiritual enlightenment instead of filling the void,' was hardly exhaustive but this one in particular got me thinking about my life and behaviors in general.
for me the actions i need to take today is seeking to express my love physically instead satisfying my animal urges, and seeking solutions instead of being critical and cynical. those two actions will help me to grow today. and after all that is what this is all about.
∞ DT ∞

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Tao Te Ching

☯ The Tao that can be spoken is not the eternal Tao ☯

The Tao Teh King, or The Tao and Its Characteristics
by Lao-Tse
Translated by James Legge

Book 1

2) The multitude of men look satisfied and pleased; as if enjoying
a full banquet, as if mounted on a tower in spring. I alone seem listless
and still, my desires having as yet given no indication of their presence.
I am like an infant which has not yet smiled. I look dejected and
forlorn, as if I had no home to go to. The multitude of men all have
enough and to spare. I alone seem to have lost everything. My mind
is that of a stupid man; I am in a state of chaos. Ordinary men look
bright and intelligent, while I alone seem to be benighted. They look
full of discrimination, while I alone am dull and confused. I seem
to be carried about as on the sea, drifting as if I had nowhere to
rest. All men have their spheres of action, while I alone seem dull
and incapable, like a rude borderer. (Thus) I alone am different from
other men, but I value the nursing-mother (the Tao).