Daniel Vaughan đŹđ§Never give up
mfjurbalaAny good hastags I might be missing on the #fediverse ? I have standard #tech ones like #foss, #bsd, etc.
Might add #philoshophy and #science stuff too. It seems more alive here since I started branching out.
Sir Rochard 'Dock' BunsonTao Te John #TTJ
"John Mastodon's Way is not difficult for those who have no preferences.
When love and hate are both absent, everything becomes clear and undisguised.
Make the smallest distinction, however, and heaven and earth are set infinitely apart."
#BobMastodon
#BeeJohnMastodon
#WeAreJohnMastodon
#TheResistanceWillBeFederated
Tao Te Ching
Stephen Mitchell translation
Ch. 10 2/2
Can you love people and lead them without imposing your will?
Can you deal with the most vital matters by letting events take their course?
Can you step back from you own mind and thus understand all things?
Giving birth and nourishing,
having without possessing,
acting with no expectations,
leading and not trying to control:
this is the supreme virtue.
#TTC #Tao #Taoism #Chinese #Philoshophy #Dao #Taoist #TaoTeChing #LaoTzu
Third Patriarch of Zen
8/20
When no discriminating thoughts arise, the old mind ceases to exist.
When thought-objects vanish, the thinking-subject vanishes, as when the mind vanishes, objects vanish.
Things are objects because of the subject (mind); the mind (subject) is such because of things (objects).
Third Patriarch of Zen
5/20
Those who do not live in the single Way fail in both activity and passivity, assertion and denial.
To deny the reality of things is to miss their reality; to assert the emptiness of things is to miss their reality.
The more you talk and think about it, the further astray you wander from the truth.
Stop talking and thinking, and there is nothing you will not be able to know.
One of my favorite things about the #TTC is that it's naturally self-evident #Wisdom or #Philoshophy that you can "test the hypothesis".
What do you think?
Since it's natural and not sacred you can play with it. That's part of the reason that there are so many translations.
Did you know that the #TaoTeChing is the 2nd most translated #Book in human #History?
w4tsn"And they said a philosophy major wouldn't be useful for anything."
"Practical Philosophy" on YouTube
https://youtu.be/tu3v87_97Hc
Practical Philosophy
Humanity, like a bumblebee, has a pretty fat torso, while the wings are just so small. The wings however are what carries it to the flowers.
If humanity would be a bird, could it fly without its left and right wings?