I love the Tao te ching.
KS
On 21/02/2008, Max Richards <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Išll see your Confucius and raise you the Lao Tzu (IX, 23):
>
> Rather than fill it to the brim by keeping it upright
> Better to have stopped in time;
>
> Hammer it to a point
> And the sharpness cannot be preserved for ever;
>
> There may be gold and jade to fill a hall
> But there is none who can keep them.
>
> To be overbearing when one has wealth and position
> Is to bring calamity upon oneself.
>
> To retire when the task is accomplished
> Is the way of heaven.
>
>
> On 21/2/08 2:37 PM, "Jon Corelis" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> > The Master said, Be of unwavering good faith, love learning, if
> > attacked be ready to die for the good Way. Do not enter a State that
> > pursues dangerous courses nor stay in one where the people have
> > rebelled. When the Way prevails under Heaven, then show yourself; when
> > it does not prevail, then hide. When the Way prevails in your own
> > land, count it a disgrace to be needy and obscure; when the Way does
> > not prevail in your land, then count it a disgrace to be rich and
> > honored.
> >
> > Confucius,
> > Analects VIII.13, tr. Waley
> >
>
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