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Messenger: jah-spear Sent: 1/9/2013 4:10:45 PM
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Iman bought a copy of the Tao Te Ching a few weeks ago. I have been reading it, and though the writing is simple it seems to I to carry a deep truth. I just wanted to share this passage that really stuck out to I:

TAO TE CHING - 81

True words are not fancy.
Fancy words are not true.
The good do not debate.
Debaters are not good.
The one who really knows is not broadly learned,
The extensively learned do not really know.
The sage does not hoard,
She gives people her surplus.
Giving her surplus to others she is enriched.

The way of Heaven is to help and not harm.


Messenger: Eleazar Sent: 1/9/2013 10:12:35 PM
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Yes I,

I read some excerpts from the Daodejing when I took a Chinese history class.

Here is an excerpt from the Daodejing I posted before:

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From the Daodejing:


Of old, among those that attained the One:
Heaven attained the One and thereby became clear.
Earth attained the One and thereby became quiet.
Spirits attained the One and thereby became numinous.
Valleys attained the One and thereby become full,
All beings attained the One and thereby they live.
Lords and kings attained the One and thereby became
The upright ones of the empire
This came about through the One.
Without what allows it to be clear,
Heaven might have been sundered.
Without what allow it to be settled,
Earth might have been shaken.
Without what causes them to be numinous,
spirits might have ceased.
Without what allows them to be full,
The valleys might have been depleted.
Without what allows them to live,
All beings might have perished.
Without what allows them to be honorable and exalted,
lords and kings might have fallen.
Therefore what is honored is rooted in the humble;
And what is exalted is founded in the lowly.
This is why lords and kings refer to themselves
as the orphaned, the lonely ones, the unfortunate.
Is this not taking humility as the root? Is it not?
Therefore if you approach a chariot and enumerate its parts,
You still have no chariot.
Seek neither to be rare like jade nor common like stone.
They Way gives birth to the One
The One gives birth to two;
Two give birth to three;
And three give birth to all things.
All beings support the yin and embrace the yang;
And through the blending of qi they create harmony.
What people hate is to be orphaned, lonely, unfortunate,
Yet kings and lords call themselves by these names.
Therefore things may gain by losing, and lose by gaining
What others teach, I also teach:
The violent do not attain a natural death.
This I take as the father of my teaching.
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Messenger: Tekel Sent: 1/10/2013 5:47:57 AM
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Blessed both are very prophetical. If Man/Wombman could only unite themselves under the Head Creator then the oneness of Truth would reign supreme again.


Messenger: jessep86 Sent: 1/14/2013 12:00:32 AM
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proverbs 11
22 As a jewel of gold in a swine's snout, so is a fair woman which is without discretion.

23 The desire of the righteous is only good: but the expectation of the wicked is wrath.

24 There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth; and there is that withholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth to poverty.

25 The liberal soul shall be made fat: and he that watereth shall be watered also himself.

26 He that withholdeth corn, the people shall curse him: but blessing shall be upon the head of him that selleth it.

27 He that diligently seeketh good procureth favour: but he that seeketh mischief, it shall come unto him.

28 He that trusteth in his riches shall fall; but the righteous shall flourish as a branch.

29 He that troubleth his own house shall inherit the wind: and the fool shall be servant to the wise of heart.

30 The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life; and he that winneth souls is wise.


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