Tao Poems - Poems about Tao

LAO TZU ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS IV The Roots of Turbulence by Lao Tzu, translation by Michael R. Burch Heaviness lies at the root of lightness; stillness begets turbulence. Thus the nobleman heads his caravan keeping a constant eye on his possession-laden wagons. At night he sleeps secure behind high-walled towers, undaunted and untroubled. But how can the ruler of ten thousand chariots discard the people so...

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LAO TZU ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS I Be Like Water by Lao Tzu, translation by Michael R. Burch The highest virtue resembles water because water unselfishly benefits all life, then settles, without contention or needless strife, in lowly cisterns. Weep for the Dead by Lao Tzu, translation by Michael R. Burch When seeing mounds of the dead the virtuous weep for the loss of life. When one is...

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Trabaho, kailangan ng lahat ng tao Upang kumita ng pera na pambili Ng mga pagkain at ng mga gamit Dapat na ibigay ito sa lahat ng tao Huwag ng maging sakim ang mga nasa gobyerno at namumuhunan Ibuhos ang kaban ng bayan para sa lahat ng mga lugar at mamamayan Maraming trabaho ang magagawa Tagatimpla ng kape, tagapunas ng sapatos o tagamasahe...

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Joy is found in money Nor yet on things any, Joy is conditional somehow-- On whence it comes and how. I may balloons buy to feel happy, My friend, by selling them, Another one by bursting them, For sure, joy is a strange puppy. For, my joy never for long last, As it wears out fast, And more balloons do make me blasé As more...

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Spectral light resounding arcs healing theistic justice positively bow toward resonant pantheistic patterned peace and negatively bend against dissonant monodramatic trauma. So too, wealthy sounding polyphonic cadence can feel drawn toward deeply panentheistic meaning-fullness Despite no healthy polypathic narrative that seems widely polymathic democratic speed of inspiraling light and fractal-powered purpose When justice shows up You don't have to solve my world, resolve my mind to body shows just cadence up maybe...

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The opposite of life is death The polar opposite of eternal health is terminal disease, with unease perhaps lying/truthing in-between timelessness and untimely demise So too, my opposite of steady compassion may be your unsettling dispassion Elation v deflation of all these oppositional answers above as clear as unclear appositional questings below. What is my opposite of suicide? Self promotion? Ego inflation? Having all my consuming needs fully answered? Or maybe some uneasy questing timeless mind and...

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sunlight on the son, shining like a star. king of the world, the man from afar. his army of peace, come to stop the war. a hint to the rich, a hand to the poor. the princely posture, standing nice and straight. the life that we live, will come down to fate. let the magic free, dancing like a fool. we all have to have, some kind of fuel. The night...

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Washing the clouds away, dreaming of lemon and minty tea. Open to follow the tide. Waiting for lights to guide my way. Yoking to paradise. Junking the fires into the rain. Kneeling to Heaven on silent praise. Holding my peace as love echoes her name. She is the moonlit star, the shadow Queen who defeated...

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we are here tame the mind let love appear bliss thunder undefined animates our soul now divine aligned truth our goal obliterating every fear presence feels whole...

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Impressive values, like love, claim resources that liberally breed ecological natural physically happy health and conservatively feed emotional spiritual mentally glad wealth. Oppressive disvalues like homophobia and racism and sexism and ageism and ableism and monoculturing disregard for threats of global anthro-supremacist ecocide, express what we are against because these are sources of sadness, bad health suppressions, sad impoverishing depressions, even mad disrepairing retributive repressions, investments in revenge, apartheid demands for militarized retribution, negative win/lose 0-sum closed system reparations repeating...

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“tao ting” how to say silently that silence is the best answer without break ing it...

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("Bristlecone", 2016, original pen and ink) Samsara Beneath the titillation of Samsara the veneer of morality waits. Or is it the opposite? Beneath the veneer of morality the titillation of Samsara awaits. Either way, it’s the same thing, the whole damn mess being one giant game of seduction. But that sucking sound at the heart of seduction…. pulling us in to a void that's impossible to avoid the force...

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Yang+Yin optimal health economics fueling wealthy cooperative politics Leads to less survivalist Yang v Yin Also, Yang x Yin multiplies SunLight x EarthPower cooperative empowerment fuels enlightening reiterations, integrations, creolizations As Yang/Yin divides separates disintegrates otherwise win/win healthy systems. So, just a quick restorative justice question-- Let's imagine a homeless adolescent (Yang) and an angry and resentful parent (Yin) left behind at what used to pass as their peaceful white picket-fenced house home habitat. Do we assume the...

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This LeftMind dominant viral virtue of practicing RightBody patience Is a coverup for feeling deep impatience. Feeling impatient is not as hopeful as exploring active curiosity. Curiosity about why someone, including my own anthro-privileged self, would default to live win/lose competitively When our healthiest, and safest economically enlightened and politically empowering experiences have always grown...

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A man of no rank is free to come and go. Excluded from the councils of power, he is not burdened by the worries of the world. Like a wild beast he is ruled by the changing seasons, and not the changing favor of the court of public opinion. Like a wild animal he is alert to the danger of social intrigue, preferring the...

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