Tao Te Ching #13 (Wu translation)

Welcome disgrace as a pleasant surprise.

Prize calamities as your own body.

Why should we welcome disgrace as a pleasant surprise?

Because a lowly state is a boon:

Getting it is a pleasant surprise,

And so is losing it!

That is why we should welcome disgrace as a pleasant surprise.

Why should we prize calamities as our own body?

Because our body is the very source of our calamities.

If we have no body, what calamities can we have?

Hence, only he who is willing to give his body for the sake of the world is fit to be entrusted with the world.

Only he who can do it with love is worthy of being the steward of the world.

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again life only gives great power to those who have no desire to use it.

I pledge now that my life belongs now to the desert.

This gives remarkable freedom of thought, for I no longer have to fear for my life, it is not in my care anymore. This releases me from fear.

Now I can without reservation turn the other cheek to all assailants.

With love,

kit

blahblahgirl

March 25, 2004

ryn: but if God is all, what is not God? if God is all how can there be any force apposing God which is not itself part of God. [InTheSandBox] …

People should believe in the unity of God. They should expel from their minds all ideas of other gods, or other beings which are similar to God; they should know that God has no equals. Yet equally they should realize there are spiritual forces which are opposed to God. They should trust God, and fear all that are opposed to him. -Junayd, Tawhid …

I am not sure if this is the quote you were reffering to? I am not sure what you mean by God being all? Where does it say all?

interesting. isabel

can’t help seeing it coming but i’ll still act surprised

ryn, disgrace. wasn’t the word humiliation before or am i just going crazy.

Schwarmerei

March 26, 2004

And as a woman I can tell you the power of release from the fear. We can let fear stop us from all fun endevors and gain nothing or we can loose the fear and gain all in each moment. One is the living dead and the other is living the Way

have you heard of the ‘I Ching’, it gives advice similar to this but was used like an oracle?

Noir De Amor

Thats really deep…

do you write this stuff while you’re high? Do you truely believe it? I don’t know anymore……………

im drunk…….. maybe thats it……….. heh.

WOW! your a really deep thinker.