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Thu, Jul 21, 2005 05:28:45 AM
δ surrendering to surrender μ
posted: Thu, Jul 21, 2005 05:28:45 AM
once again i find myself in a place that requires me to find a way to surrender. although i have surrendered over and over again since getting clean, there always seems to be yet another thing to surrender. i really do not want to fall victim to ‘ old-timers disease, ’ i also have a problem with the belief that perhaps, in some matters, maybe i do know a thing or two.
well the truth is that belief is rooted in conceit and will kill me, since the part of me i lable my disease uses what it can to take me away from where i need to be.
so what do i need to surrender today that i feel i can handle????????
∞ DT ∞
well the truth is that belief is rooted in conceit and will kill me, since the part of me i lable my disease uses what it can to take me away from where i need to be.
so what do i need to surrender today that i feel i can handle????????
- my life
- my will
- my shortcomings
- and most of all the attitude that i can do this by myself
∞ DT ∞
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☯ The Tao that can be spoken is not the eternal Tao ☯
by Lao-Tse
Translated by James Legge
Book 1
1) The skilful traveller leaves no traces of his wheels or footsteps;
the skilful speaker says nothing that can be found fault with or blamed;
the skilful reckoner uses no tallies; the skilful closer needs no
bolts or bars, while to open what he has shut will be impossible;
the skilful binder uses no strings or knots, while to unloose what
he has bound will be impossible. In the same way the sage is always
skilful at saving men, and so he does not cast away any man; he is
always skilful at saving things, and so he does not cast away anything.
This is called 'Hiding the light of his procedure.'