One year after receiving your instructions I became naturally simple.

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One year after receiving your instructions I became naturally simple. After two years, I could adapt myself as required. After three years, I understood. After four years, my intelligence developed. After five years, it was complete. After six years, the spirit entered into me. After seven, I knew God. After eight, life and death existed for me no more. After nine, perfection.

Source Chuang Tzu, chapter 27, §3 · 📖 Read the full passage

✨ To meditate on today

According to Chuang Tzu, a disciple tells his master about his inner path, year after year: recovering his simplicity, letting go of the self, no longer being shaken by emotions, then opening himself to universal nature, until he finds himself united with the Principle. Today, choose one small step on this path, for example rediscovering simplicity in an ordinary gesture, and live it patiently, without hurrying.

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