Category Archives: Doing not-doing

From the Tao-te-ching

A conscious unity with reality

Posted on December 16, 2012 by Michaela

Adyashanti’s beautiful enquiry on the art and wisdom of non-doing Enjoy

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Moving into the unknown

Posted on July 29, 2012 by Michaela

I beg you, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don’t search for the answers, which … Continue reading →

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Reflection

Posted on August 14, 2011 by Michaela

53 The great Way is easy, yet people prefer the side paths. Be aware when things are out of balance. Stay centered within the Tao. When rich speculators prosper While farmers lose their land; when government officials spend money on … Continue reading →

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The only path to serenity

Posted on August 12, 2011 by Michaela

9 Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt. Chase after money and security and your heart will never unclench. Care about people’s approval and you will be their prisoner. … Continue reading →

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All you need to know…

Posted on April 18, 2011 by Michaela

33 Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power. If you realize that you have enough, you are truly rich. If you stay in the center and embrace death with … Continue reading →

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Choices & Doing Not-Doing

Posted on March 28, 2011 by Michaela

Giovanni Bellini ” Agony in the Garden of Gethsemane” (1465) National Gallery, London 6 The Tao is called the Great Mother empty yet inexhaustible, it gives birth to infinite worlds. It is always present within you. You can use it … Continue reading →

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Stay in the Centre

Posted on March 25, 2011 by Michaela

Verse 33 Knowing others is intelligence: knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power  . If you realize you have enough, you are truly rich. if you stay in the center and embrace death … Continue reading →

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Caught in a Rip Tide

Posted on March 18, 2011 by Michaela

78 Nothing in the world is as soft and yielding as water. Yet for dissolving the hard and inflexible, nothing can surpass it. The soft overcomes the hard; the gentle overcomes the rigid. Everyone knows this is true, but few … Continue reading →

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Politics is a process

Posted on December 6, 2010 by Michaela

Politics (from Greek πολιτικος, [politikós]: «citizen»), is a process by which groups of people make collective decisions. And while there is nothing wrong with creating a platform for engaging the individual in the decisions that ultimately affect them, we also have to … Continue reading →

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The Tao is the way

Posted on November 26, 2010 by Michaela

Verse 57 is about letting go. All of it. Becoming aware of the myriard of ways how we control our life, is at the centre of liberation. Decisions, fixed plans, concepts…just observe yourself to understand how much we are still … Continue reading →

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