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Taoism
Lesson 231

Use your eyes to contemplate, your ears to listen to, your mind to consider, their own internal workings.

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Use your eyes to contemplate, your ears to listen to, your mind to consider, their own internal workings. For him who can do these things, his level will be that of a line, his modifications in due and proper season.

Source Chuang Tzu, chapter 24, ยง17 ยท ๐Ÿ“– Read the full passage

โœจ To meditate on today

According to Chuang Tzu, the Principle is found by stepping back, and it is from the infinite that particular things should be seen, whereas most people get lost in them. Today, when a detail annoys or worries you, look up at the sky for a moment and view the situation from a little higher, calmly.

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