Tao Te Ching #3

If you over-esteem talented individuals, people will become overly competitive.

If you overvalue possessions, people will begin to steal.

Do not display your treasures or people will become envious.

The Master leads by emptying people’s minds, filling their bellies,

weakening their ambitions, and making them become strong.

Preferring simplicity and freedom from desires, avoiding the pitfalls of knowledge and wrong action.

For those who practise not-doing, everything will fall into place.

Tao Te Ching #2

When people see things as beautiful, ugliness is created.

When people see things as good, evil is created.

Being and non-being produce each other.

Difficult and easy complement each other.

Long and short define each other.

High and love oppose each other.

Fore and aft follow each other.

Therefore the Master can act without doing anything and teach without saying a word.

Things come her way and she does not stop them;

things leave and she lets them go.

She has without possessing, and acts without expectations.

When her work is done, she take no credit.

That is why it will last forever.

Tao Te Ching #1

The tao that can be described is not the eternal Tao.

The name that can be spoken is not the eternal name.

The nameless is the boundary of Heaven and Earth.

The named is the mother of Creation.

Freed from desire, you can see the hidden mystery.

By having desire, you can only see what is visibly real.

Yet mystery and reality emerge from the same source.

This source is called darkness.

Darkness born from darkness.

The Beginning of all Understanding.