Tag: the way

XXIX

Out of compassion, the master
Avoids extravagance and excess.
Want to rule the world?
It cannot be done.
You’ll only make it worse
If you try.

XXVIII

From the block of wood,
Tools are made.
The Master uses these tools
But prefers the block’s
Limitless potential.
Know the honorable,
But embrace the disgraced.
Accept the world as it is,
And the way will always go with you.

XXVII

The true master helps everyone,
Without a thought of rejection.
Do you see an enemy or a teacher?
Avoid delusion
And honour them.

XXVI

The master travels ever onward,
Never leaving her cart.
Though there’s so much to see,
She takes or leaves what passes by,
At one with her indifference.

XXV

Before the universe,
Amid the chaos,
Empty and alone.
Because I do not know its name,
I call it the way.

XXIV

Standing on tiptoes,
We falter.
Rushing ahead,
We fall behind.

The self-named righteous
Do not see their wrongs.
Proclaiming their deeds,
They only diminish them.

The path goes another way.

XXIII

Open up to the way
To become one with it.
Open up to virtue,
To become virtuous.
Open up to loss,
To lose yourself.

Gales blow
And torrents rain
Only briefly.
Yet we witter
And fuss endlessly,
Over trifles

When trust is lost,
We are all untrustworthy.