TAOIST MASTERS AND THEIR PHILOSOPHIES- PART THREE

Our ancient Taoist masters continue to teach us their wisdom. Enjoy !

1.         In the macrocosm, the disturbance of yin and yang causes the four seasons to come out of time and disrupts the succession of heat and cold. In the human microcosm, disturbance of the  yin and yang by the passions also causes great disorders

2.         Be withdrawn, detached, don’t fatigue your body or rouse your instincts, and you can last forever (Master Guang Cheng, of Mt Kong Tong)

3.         For him who is united with Unity, every thing prospers

4.         Nature has disappeared, laws has replaced it, and from this there has come lawlessness. (Master Gao)

5.         Lao Tzu replied to Confucius, “ I am going to tell you a truth that you will neither be able to understand nor repeat it correctly. There are no more Sages. You will search in vain for those who in their material body have kept their part of the original Tao intact. They neither acted nor rested; neither lived nor died but let themselves go along the thread of universal evolution.”

6.         Those who know the nature of things, do not try to explain it in words; and those who try, that they do not know

7.         At the age of 50, Confucius still had no idea of the Tao, thus he went to Pei and looked for Lao Tzu, and the later said “ Believe whatever you will, in theory, but in practice, bend with the wind, accept the changes that have come upon the world”

8.         Regarding Lao Tze, Confucius said ‘I saw the dragon personified in that man. The dragon coils up visibly, then extends itself invisibly, producing cloudy or clear weather, without anyone being able to understand its powerful but mysterious action. He has too much breadth for me. What could I say to refute him?”

9.         Integrity and purity is what preserves the soul and prevents it from being worn out. Purity implies absence of mixture, integrity means absence of all defects. He whose spirit is perfectly integrated and pure, is a True Man

10.       Now everything is disorder and perversion

11.       Supreme contentment is to have nothing which contents; Supreme glory is not to be glorified

12.       Heaven and Earth do every thing by doing nothing

13.       Whosoever is harmed should not blame what has harmed him; he should blame himself, his vulnerability being proof of imperfection

14.       A shoe is perfect when the foot does not feel it; Perfection is to be perfect without knowing it

15.       Life follows death, death is the origin of life