meditation on water

August 4, 2014 by jaklumen 4 Comments

The highest goodness resembles water
Water greatly benefits myriad things without contention
It stays in places that people dislike
Therefore it is similar to the Tao

Dwelling with the right location
Feeling with great depth
Giving with great kindness
Speaking with great integrity
Governing with great administration
Handling with great capability
Moving with great timing

Because it does not contend
It is therefore beyond reproach

–Tao Te Ching, Chapter 8, via http://www.Taoism.net and Tao Te Ching: Annotated & Explained, SkyLight Paths (c)2006.

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4 thoughts on “meditation on water”

serins
August 4, 2014 at 23:44

🙂

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Kristi Campbell - findingninee
August 9, 2014 at 21:30

We went to a water play park today. And so yes. Feeling with greater depth.

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Achieving Clarity
August 10, 2014 at 20:29

If only I possessed the wisdom to be as flexible as water in my younger days, the pain I could have saved myself. The unwillingness to bend, pride, the desire to be right…any number of things have kept me from being the water!

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Rob's Surf Report
August 11, 2014 at 07:18

Just so. 🙂

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