Daily Meditation: Real Wisdom

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Today's meditation features a passage from the Tao Te Ching. Like many parables from Taoist wisdom, it is often through paradox and contradiction that the greatest lessons are revealed. This passage is no exception.

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Chapter 7 from the Tao Te Ching

Heaven is eternal, the Earth everlasting.

How come they to be so? It is because they do not foster their own lives;

That is why they live so long.

Therefore the Sage

Puts himself in the background; but is always to the fore.

Remains outside; but is always there.

Is it not just because he does not strive for any personal end

That all his personal ends are fulfilled?

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