Movement of the Tao

When the Tao prevails in the world, they send back their swift horses to (draw) the dung-carts. When the Tao is disregarded in the world, the war-horses breed in the border lands. There is no guilt greater than to sanction ambition; no calamity greater than to be discontented with one's lot; no fault greater than the wish to be getting. Therefore the sufficiency of contentment is an enduring and unchanging sufficiency. Tao Te Ching, Chapter 46

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It [Tao] is built on the premise that the cosmos and man in the last analysis obey the same law; that man is a microcosm and is not· separated from the macrocosm by any fixed barriers. The very same laws rule for the one as for the other and from the one a way leads into the other. The psyche and the cosmos are to each other like the inner world and the outer world. Therefore man participates by nature in all cosmic events, and is inwardly as well as outwardly interwoven with them. ~Carl Jung, The Stone Speaks, Page 71-72

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https://fractalenlightenment.com/37481/life/lao-tzus-four-rules-for-living?fbclid=IwAR35vs_4WPv-HNxA9aOLOSQQee9mIBQ8YhISOyevRAGOMH1PzUZNiI_AtGw

Lao Tzu's Four Rules for Living

Legend has it that when Lao Tzu was leaving civilization he was asked by a guard to write down a guide on how to live life. This is how the Tao Te Ching came into existence and is by far one of the widely translated and well read books. The thing about the Tao Te Ching is that every translation is t...

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Alan Watts on the Antidote to the Loneliness of the Divided Mind, Our Integration with the Universe, and How We Wrest Meaning from Reality

“If the universe is meaningless, so is the statement that it is so… The meaning and purpose of dancing is the dance.”

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http://www.openculture.com/2014/11/the-wisdom-of-alan-watts-in-four-thought-provoking-animations.html

The Wisdom of Alan Watts in Four Thought-Provoking Animations

Perhaps no single person did more to popularize Zen Buddhism in the West than Alan Watts. In a sense, Watts prepared U.S. culture for more traditionally Zen teachers like Soto priest Suzuki Roshi, whose lineage continues today, but Watts did not consider himself a Zen Buddhist.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iiUqw2v9B_Q

Kung Fu: Free Will Vs Destiny

David Carradine on destiny vs. free will. George couldn't have said it better himself.

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Wu Wei

Alan Watts Explains the Meaning of the Tao, with the Help of the Greatest Nancy Panel Ever Drawn

McCloud A little over ten years ago, cartoonist Jim Woodring isolated a single image from Ernie Bushmiller’s long-running and deeply polarizing Nancy comic strip, celebrating it on his blog, the Woodring Monitor, as 'the greatest Nancy panel ever drawn.” What makes this panel the greatest?

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