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Came codes of love and honesty��
Learning came�察�charity came��
Hypocrisy took charge��
When differences weakened family ties
Came benevolent fathers and dutiful sons��
And when lands were disrupted and misgoverned
Came ministers commended as loyal。
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Rid of formalized wisdom and learning
People would be a hundredfold happier��
Rid of conventionalized duty and honor
People would find their families dear��
Rid of legalized profiteering
People would have no thieves to fear。
These methods of life have failed�察�all three��
Here is the way�察�it seems to me��
Set people free��
As deep in their hearts they would like to be��
From private greeds
And wanton needs。
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Leave off fine learning� �End the nuisance
Of saying yes to this and perhaps to that��
Distinctions with how little difference��
Categorical this�察�categorical that��
What slightest use are they��
If one man leads�察�another must follow��
How silly that is and how false��
Yet conventional men lead an easy life
With all their days feast days��
A constant spring visit to the Tall Tower��
While I am a simpleton�察�a do´nothing��
Not big enough yet to raise a hand��
Not grown enough to smile��
A homeless�察�worthless waif。
Men of the world have a surplus of goods��
While I am left out�察�owning nothing。
What a booby I must be
Not to know my way round��
What a fool��
The average man is so crisp and so confident
That I ought to be miserable
Going on and on like the sea��
Drifting nowhere。
All these people are making their mark in the world��
While I�察�pig´headed�察�awkward��
Different from the rest��
Am only a glorious infant still nursing at the breast。
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The surest test if a man be sane
Is if he accepts life whole�察�as it is��
Without needing by measure or touch to understand
The measureless untouchable source
Of its images��
The measureless untouchable source
Of its substances��
The source which�察�while it appears dark emptiness��
Brims with a quick force
Farthest away
And yet nearest at hand
From oldest time unto this day��
Charging its images with origin��
What more need I know of the origin
Than this��
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'Yield and you need not break��'
Bent you can straighten��
Emptied you can hold��
Torn you can mend��
And as want can reward you
So wealth can bewilder。
Aware of this�察�a wise man has the simple return
Which other men seek��
Without inflaming himself
He is kindled��
Without explaining himself
Is explained��
Without taking credit
Is accredited��
Laying no claim
Is acclaimed
And�察�because he does not compete��
Finds peaceful competence。
How true is the old saying��
'Yield and you need not break'��
How completely it comes home��
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Nature does not have to insist��
Can blow for only half a morning��
Rain for only half a day��
And what are these winds and these rains but natural��
If nature does not have to insist��
Why should man��
It is natural too
That whoever follows the way of life feels alive��
That whoever uses it properly feels well used��
Whereas he who loses the way of life feels lost��
That whoever keeps to the way of life
Feels at home��
Whoever uses it properly
Feels welcome��
Whereas he who uses it improperly
Feels improperly used��
'Fail to honor people��
They fail to honor you。
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Standing tiptoe a man loses balance��
Walking astride he has no pace��
Kindling himself he fails to light��
Acquitting himself he forfeits his hearers��
Admiring himself he does so alone。
Pride has never brought a man greatness
But�察�according to the way of life��
Brings the ills that make him unfit��
Make him unclean in the eyes of his neighbor��
And a sane man will have none of them。
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Before creation a prescience existed��
Self´contained�察�complete��
Formless�察�voiceless�察�mateless��
Changeless��
Which yet pervaded itself
With unending motherhood。
Though there can be no name for it��
I have called it 'the way of life。'
Perhaps I should have called it 'the fullness of life��'
Since fullness implies widening into space��
Implies still further widening��
Implies widening until the circle is whole。
In this sense
The way of life is fulfilled��
Heaven is fulfilled��
Earth fulfilled
And a fit man also is fulfilled��
These are the four amplitudes of the universe
And a fit man is one of them��
Man rounding the way of earth��
Earth rounding the way of heaven��
Heaven rounding the way of life
Till the circle is full。
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Gravity is the root of grace��
The mainstay of all speed。
A traveler of true means�察�whatever the day's pace��
Remembers the provision´van
And�察�however fine prospect be offered�察�is a man
With a calm head。
What lord of countless chariots would ride them in vain��
Would make himself fool of the realm��
With pace beyond rein��
Speed beyond helm��
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One may move so well that a foot´print never shows��
Speak so well that the tongue never slips��
Reckon so well that no counter is needed��
Seal an entrance so tight�察�though using no lock��
That it cannot be opened��
Bind a hold so firm�察�though using no cord��
That it cannot be untied。
And these are traits not only of a sound man
But of many a man thought to be unsound。
A sound man is good at salvage��
At seeing that nothing is lost。
Having what is called insight��
A good man�察�before he can help a bad man��
Finds in himself the matter with the bad man。
And whichever teacher
Discounts the lesson
Is as far off the road as the other��
Whatever else he may know。
That is the heart of it。
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'One who has a man's wings
And a woman's also
Is in himself a womb of the world'
And�察�being a womb of the world��
Continuously�察�endlessly��
Gives birth��
One who�察�preferring light��
Prefers darkness also
Is in himself an image of the world
And�察�being an image of the world��
Is continuously�察�endlessly
The dwelling of creation��
One who is highest of men
And humblest also
Is in himself a valley of the world��
And。 being a valley of the world��
Continuously�察�endlessly
Conducts the one source
From which vessels may be usefully filled��
Servants of the state are such vessels��
To be filled from undiminishing supply。
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Those who would take over the earth
And shape it to their will
Never�察�I notice�察�succeed。
The earth is like a vessel so sacred
That at the mere approach of the profane
It is marred
And when they reach out their fingers it is gone。
For a time in the world some force themselves ahead
And some are left behind��
For a time in the world some make a great noise
And some are held silent��
For a time in the world some are puffed fat
And some are kept hungry��
For a time in the world some push aboard
And some are tipped out��
At no time in the world will a man who is sane
Over´reach himself��
Over´spend himself��
Over´rate himself。
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One who would guide a leader of men in the uses of life
Will warn him against the use of arms for conquest。
Weapons often turn upon the wielder��
An army's harvest is a waste of thorns��
Conscription of a multitude of men
Drains the next year dry。
A good general�察�daring to march�察�dares also to halt��
Will never press his triumph beyond need。
What he must do he does but not for glory��
What he must do he does but not for show��
What he must do he does but not for self��
He has done it because it had to be done��
Not from a hot head。
Let life ripen and then fall��
Force is not the way at all��
Deny the way of life and you are dead。
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Even the finest arms are an instrument of evil��
A spread of plague��
And the way for a vital man to go is not the way of a soldier。
But in time of war men civilized in peace
Turn from their higher to their lower nature。
Arms are an instrument of evil��
No measure for thoughtful men
Until there fail all other choice
But sad acceptance of it。
Triumph is not beautiful。
He who thinks triumph beautiful
Is one with a will to kill��
And one with a will to kill
Shall never prevail upon the world。
It is a good sign when man's higher nature comes forward��
A bad sign when his lower nature comes forward��
When retainers take charge
And the master stays back
As in the conduct of a funeral。
The death of a multitude is cause for mourning��
Conduct your triumph as a funeral。
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Existence is infinite�察�not to be defined��
And�察�though it seem but a bit of wood in your hand�察�to carve as you please��
It is not to be lightly played with and laid down。
When rulers adhered to the way of life��
They were upheld by natural loyalty��
Heaven and earth were joined and made fertile��
Life was a freshness of rain��
Subject to none��
Free to all。
But men of culture came�察�with their grades and their distinctions��
And as soon as such differences had been devised
No one knew where to end them��
Though the one who does know the end of all such differences
Is the sound man��
Existence
Might be likened to the course
Of many rivers reaching the one sea。
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Knowledge studies others��
Wisdom is self´known��
Muscle masters brothers��
Self´mastery is bone��
Content need never borrow��
Ambition wanders blind��
Vitality cleaves to the marrow
Leaving death behind。
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Bountiful life�察�letting anyone attend��
Making no distinction between left or right。
Feeding everyone��
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