Posted by sigismund on October 9, 2013, at 21:11:39
In reply to Re: delusions of kindness » sigismund, posted by Phillipa on October 9, 2013, at 20:52:37
The reason I have not been able to find it in the Chuang Tzu is that it is in the Tao Te Ching.
Tao Te Ching - Lao Tzu - chapter 13
Accept disgrace willingly.
Accept misfortune as the human condition.What do you mean by "Accept disgrace willingly"?
Accept being unimportant.
Do not be concerned with loss and gain.
This is called "accepting disgrace willingly."What do you mean by "Accept misfortune as the human condition"?
Misfortune comes from having a body.
Without a body, how could there be misfortune?Surrender yourself humbly; then you can be trusted to care for all things.
Love the world as your own self; then you can truly care for all things.
I had an older friend a long time back, an important man of the world in a way, and one day he said about something or other 'I don't matter', and I guess he was just talking about the evanescence of things and time.I always wanted to be a saint too.
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