So Easy to Understand and Practice
The Great Integrity is easy to understand,
And easy to practice.
Yet it is not understood,
Nor is it practiced.
It is not understood
Because peoples heads are filled
With 10,000 trivia and rationalizations,
Leaving no space for anything else.
It is not practiced
Because people are busy, and bored,
With the 10,000 corruptions and miseries
That leave no time for the Three Treasurers.
The Great Integrity is so ancient,
As old as the universe itself!
How can we expect people to remember it
After so many millennia of repression?
That is why
Sages dress in rags
While they wear the Three Treasures
Deep inside their hearts.
Verse 70
Translator; Ralph Alan Dale
Photo: Tadpole Galaxy
The Great Integrity is easy to understand,
And easy to practice.
Yet it is not understood,
Nor is it practiced.
It is not understood
Because peoples heads are filled
With 10,000 trivia and rationalizations,
Leaving no space for anything else.
It is not practiced
Because people are busy, and bored,
With the 10,000 corruptions and miseries
That leave no time for the Three Treasurers.
The Great Integrity is so ancient,
As old as the universe itself!
How can we expect people to remember it
After so many millennia of repression?
That is why
Sages dress in rags
While they wear the Three Treasures
Deep inside their hearts.
Verse 70
Translator; Ralph Alan Dale
Photo: Tadpole Galaxy
2 comments:
Interesting... and a true reflection of our Society.
Katie,
What amazes me as I read the Tao is the similarities of the world in Lao's day and ours. The human condition appears not to have changed much, and yet I know it has improved.
Thanks for stopping by
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