SIMPLICITY
Tao is so simple!
There is nothing to it!
Yet everything within it.
The teacher learns from the pupil's mistakes.
The pupil learns from the teacher's mistakes.
Practice learning from blundering.
The wise learn from the stupidity of fools.
The foolish learn from the foolishness of the
wise.
The
sage is a fool, twice over.
A simpleton?
A wiseacre!
Simplicity is not necessarily simple to
comprehend, nor to implement. Tao is full of it, yet
often seems empty!
Skilful use of a
simple or 'common-sense' approach can slice through
complex issues - like cutting a Gordian knot.
Tao cannot be pressured,
bribed, tricked or charmed into fully revealing its
nature or explaining its teachings in detail.
Even if that were possible, it would be pointless
and counterproductive. Such lessons can only be learned
through living.
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