Showing posts with label Non-doing. Show all posts
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Saturday, May 1, 2010

For Self-Mastery Forget About Free Will

From Tao Te Ching, Number 48:

True mastery can be gained
by letting things go their own way.
It can't be gained by interfering.

What is Lao Tzu talking about here?

As if it were riding in a carriage or wagon, our consciousness rides on our body's innate intelligence, which is hardwired to Universal Intelligence. Learning to observe all that happens in us, through us and around us is true mastery. Attempting to intervene in what's happening--what our bodies, our carriages, are doing beneath us--is not mastery, it's interference.

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