Tao Te Ching - Chapter 2

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When people see some things as beautiful,
other things become ugly.
When people see some things as good,
other things become bad.

Being and non-being create each other.
Difficult and easy support each other.
Long and short define each other.
High and low depend on each other.
Before and after follow each other.

Therefore the Master
acts without doing anything
and teaches without saying anything.
Things arise and she lets them come;
things disappear and she lets them go.
She has but doesn't possess,
acts but doesn't expect.
When her work is done, she forgets it.
That is why it lasts forever.


|Today, acting without doing anything is remaining fully conscious, free from attachment, aversion, or indifference, in the front row without showing inappropriate emotion.  AA is a place for healing, not a sideshow.  Though I cannot fight unconsciousnes with unconsiousness, I can try to bring the cool, clear light of consciousness in by sitting still and very present.  The infinite now is the ultimate antidote for the infinite ego.
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