The Great Mystery

October 3, 2009 at 6:29 am (Contentment, Humility, Tao Te Ching, Taoism)
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Neither spoken nor seen
the Great Mystery
It can never be found or past alone
No rules can be broken,
or commandments to obey
If one speaks of Tao,
One does not know The Way

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Tao desires no respect
Distant from worldly names
It flows underneath 10,000 things
Content to rest while others hurry
Last is as good as first
Without force it changes
Hard to soft, soft to hard
But takes no credit,
its beneath detection

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It’s far but near, it never moves
Amidst threaten skies and wind
Offering its inexhaustible surplus
Beneath a rock or
Above the sky it is humble
The Tao offers nothing
But gives everything…
The Great Mystery

~~Invisible Dragon

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Day 9, Top 10 Contentment Quotes

July 4, 2009 at 7:35 am (Contentment, wisdom)
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A exploration of spiritual stillness, 30 day fast of reading, studying and practicing the 26th verse of Tao Te Ching. (Living Calmly) The month long spiritual exercise in accepting and being gracious for what lies ahead.  Being a avid hack writer, I’ll post 30 days consecutively, thoughts on “Being Content.” Poems, exercises, take-home assignments, etc.

Day 9,

I thought to put in order ten quotations that I find to be helpful and wise.  There are many that I considered, but these stood out.  If you have some please leave in comment section.

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10.  Until you make peace with who you are,

you’ll never be content with what you have.

Doris Mortman

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9.  It is not our circumstances that create

our discontent or contentment. It is us.

Vivian Greene

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8.  He who is not contented with

what he has, would not be contented

with what he would like to have.

Socrates

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7.  What makes us discontented with our condition

is the absurdly exaggerated idea

we have of the happiness of others.

French Proverb

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6.  If we have not quiet in our minds,

outward comfort will do no more

for us than a golden slipper on a gouty foot.

John Bunyan

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5.  Happy the man, and happy he alone,

he who can call today his own;

he who, secure within, can say,

tomorrow do thy worst,

for I have lived today.

John Dryden

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4.  My crown is in my heart, not on my head,

Nor decked with diamonds and Indian stones,

Nor to be seen:

My crown is called content:

A crown it is, that seldom kings enjoy.

William Shakespeare

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3.  For I have learned, in whatsoever state I am,

therewith to be content.

St. Paul In Philippians 4:11

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2.  He who is contented is rich.

Lao-Tzu

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1.  When you can think of yesterday

without regret and tomorrow without fear,

you are near contentment.

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If you have contentment quotations of your own or other authors, I would like to see them, please feel free to post them in comment section.

The Invisible Dragon

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Day 1, The Black Box

June 26, 2009 at 7:29 am (Buddhism, Christianity, God, Spirituality, Taoism)
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30 Day Fast. (Be Content)

A exploration of spiritual stillness, 30 day fast of reading, studying and practicing the 26th verse of Tao Te Ching. (Living Calmly) The month long spiritual exercise in accepting and being gracious for what lies ahead. Being a avid hack writer, I’ll post 30 days consecutively, thoughts on “Being Content.” Poems, exercises, take-home assignments, etc.

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Day 1

The Black Box

A calm mind has no chaos.  Our mind has a Black Box, yes one similar to the aviation device equipped on aircrafts. The planes’ Black Box records all electronic. In the unfortunate case of a disaster, its recover and analysis it for clues.

Think of your mind, recording everything, it every seen, heard or acted on. Personal interactions, public and private conversations, private thoughts, dreams. Our mind’s Black Box holds DNA of the spirit, good or bad. The aviation’s Black Box has to be found and activated to retrieve information.

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How the Mind works.

Our mind’s creates our illusions. The mind’s Black Box constantly records our shallow interpretations. We act without knowledge in this preconditioned mental state. Unstable and fearful, we precede through life with caution.

Life has been recorded with pain and so we see pain all around us. Each event molded to our psychosis, we see the world and its people as being uncertain. A selfish mind, creates a selfish world, your Black Box is running your life.

Interpreting a world as hostile you’ll only help if its convenience for you. Fearful that your resources will never be returned, you hoard everything of valve.

To “Be Content,” we must practice the art of contentment. Our true nature must interpret, our true nature is Love and Kindness.

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Know yourself, it makes it much easier to Love. When you truly know who you are, your world’s view will change.

What provoked fear and doubt, will now create opportunities of giving. Established in spirit, you understand the Tao can not be exhausted.

Take the day and monitor your “Black Box.” What is it recording? Who’s evil to you? How bad can your life get? Why can’t I forgive? The spirit to accept what lies ahead, comes from deep inner travel.

God gives what is given.

The Invisible Dragon

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Tao Te Ching Verse 14, Translated by Dr.Mikhail Nikolenko

February 5, 2009 at 10:09 pm (Lao-tzu, Tao Te Ching)
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Every tree and plant in the meadow seemed to be dancing,

those which average eyes would see as fixed and still.

–Rumi

Tao Te Ching Verse14

If you look at Tao, you cannot notice It immediately.

This is why It is called hard-to-be-seen.

If you listen to Tao, you cannot hear It immediately.

This is why It is called hard-to-be-heard.

If you try to grasp Tao, you cannot reach It.

This is why It is called hard-to-be-caught.

In Tao are Those Who fill you with delight!

All They in Tao are merged into One.

Tao is equal above and below.

Tao, infinite in size, cannot be called by the name of some of Them.

They come out from Tao manifesting

Their Individualities and then come back to the state without individual manifestation — in It.

Tao has no corporeal image and face.

Therefore, It is said of as hidden and mysterious.

Meeting Tao, I do not see Its face; following Tao, I do not see Its back.

By following strictly the primal Path of transformation of oneself as a consciousness,

one can cognizant that Eternal Origin.

This Path is the Path to Tao.

“Realizing life only from five senses leads unwise away from union with Creator. This path gives understanding of physical world through the ego, this path crowded. Visualizing beyond sight and focusing on unseen through consciousness, the Sage connects with Tao.

Seeing space he experience spiritual sight of invisible Oneness; listening to silence produces divine connection with Creator. Sage through meditation learns to connect mind with mind of eternal God at any time. This path, less traveled.“

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Tao Te Ching Verse 12,Translation-Dr.Mikhail Nikolenko, notes by invisible dragon

February 2, 2009 at 11:16 pm (Blogging, Tao)
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When you don’t require anything from the world and nothing from

God, when you don’t desire anything, when you don’t strive for

anything, don’t expect anything, the divine will enter you, unasked

and unexpected.

~Nisargadatta

Tao Te Ching Verse 12

He who sees only five colors in the world is like the blind.

He who hears only the sounds of the material world is similar to the deaf.

He who partakes only of material food and feels only its taste is deluded.

He who rushes at full speed after his prey is insane.

By accumulating wealth and adornments, people act to the detriment of themselves.

The efforts of the wise are directed at having enough food,

and not at accumulating many objects.


He, satisfied with little in the world of matter, chooses the Primordial.

What anchor hold ship? Life surrounded with illusions, unsteady course power and fame. A intense selfish desire for wealth or possessions engulf spirit of material earth. Unrest spirit constantly responding to physical world lives in state of flux.  Accomplishments, possessions never explain true nature. Swinging to and fro with winds of change, perceived imbalance produce panic and worry. Never grounded, not solid, undependable.

Sage understand balance and remain grounded in eternal Tao. Not becoming intoxicated with temporary pleasures of senses, focused, living below in physical world but above in spirit. Never more then needed, welcoming not acquisitiveness or greed. Living firm, remaining dependent in harvest and drought, never concerns with supplies. Planting seed in eternity; Tao providing all in life and death.


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