Thursday, January 18, 2007

Tao Te Ching




The Paradoxes of Returning To the Great Integrity

Banish the intellectual!
Discard knowledge!
We will all benefit a hundredfold!

Eliminate the institutions
Of charity and justice!
We can return
To our natural love for each other.
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Let everyone be released
From our addictions
To shrewdness and profit!
Then, thievery will disappear!

These three negate the Great Integrity.
But to negate these negations
Is insufficient.
Three affirmations are also necessary.

The first is to embrace
Simplicity and integrity.
The second is to consume
Only the needs of our body and soul.
The third is to allow our love and concern
For others to define our essentiality.

Verse 19
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