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picture28 Feb 2010 @ 03:14

OPPORTUNITY

A green bird darting in the night.
Will you be able to see it?
Will you be able to catch it?
Cling to Tao like a shadow.
Move without a shadow.



Times of oppression and adversity cannot last forever. How is the
transition made to new and better situations? In the midst of great
difficulty, a tiny opportunity will open, if only by chance. You must be
sharp enough to discern it, quick enough to catch it, and determined
enough to do something with it. If you let it pass, you will be filled
with regrets.

Stick to Tao like a shadow. Wherever it goes, you go. As soon as it
throws something your way, catch it by sheer reflex. It is like the
bird: If you try to catch it, you will miss. If you are always with it,
moving at its speed, as much a part of it as its own shadow, then it is
easy to seize it.

When you act, however, you in turn must have no shadow. In other
words, what you do must leave no messiness, no leftover consequences,
nothing that will haunt you later. That is one of the ways in which you
avoid creating more bad situations for yourself: Your every movement is
traceless.




365 Tao: Daily Meditations
Deng Ming-Dao


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28 Feb 2010 @ 09:19 by susannahbe : Shadow
"When you act, however, you in turn must have no shadow. In other
words, what you do must leave no messiness, no leftover consequences,
nothing that will haunt you later."

Wise advice. :-)  

1 Mar 2010 @ 15:49 by therapist : In one with Tao
When one is one with Tao, one has no need nor desire to \"seize\"  

13 Mar 2010 @ 02:13 by karlhere : seize nor catch anything, rather embrace

Good point about the word “seize” … but then again, i did not even read the word seize by simply being in the mindset.

The word was read more like “embrace or touch”, for even these shall commence open handed that such occurrence is only to share its essence as is right for it and you.

One surely never posses as seize, or even the word "catch" suggests, but sharing as one is love, and that is good.

karl here …  

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