http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DailyDao/ Daily Dao De Ching Sat, 04 Jul 2009 14:29:01 GMT Chris Childs http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DailyDao/message/4408 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DailyDao/message/4408 Chapter 46 When the Tao prevails in the world, they send back their swift horses to (draw) the dung-carts. When the Tao is disregarded in the world, the Sat, 04 Jul 2009 10:28:11 GMT Sue in NJ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DailyDao/message/4407 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DailyDao/message/4407 FLAME Enter the cavern with its Walls of tangled strands. Find the living flame That burns on blood. The brain is a physical object that generates mental Fri, 03 Jul 2009 14:54:43 GMT Chris Childs http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DailyDao/message/4406 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DailyDao/message/4406 Chapter 45 Who thinks his great achievements poor Shall find his vigour long endure. Of greatest fulness, deemed a void, Exhaustion ne'er shall stem the tide. Fri, 03 Jul 2009 11:12:53 GMT Sue in NJ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DailyDao/message/4405 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DailyDao/message/4405 SITE Desert: visions. Tropics: possession. Forests: alchemy. Mountains: asceticism. Throughout the world, the site where people practiced spirituality has been Thu, 02 Jul 2009 13:17:38 GMT Chris Childs http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DailyDao/message/4404 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DailyDao/message/4404 Chapter 44 Or fame or life, Which do you hold more dear? Or life or wealth, To which would you adhere? Keep life and lose those other things; Keep them and Thu, 02 Jul 2009 08:47:00 GMT Sue in NJ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DailyDao/message/4403 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DailyDao/message/4403 MIDDLE Those who attain the middle Dominate the whole. Today is the 183rd day. It is exactly the middle day out of 365. Once you reach the center of anything, Wed, 01 Jul 2009 12:40:25 GMT Chris Childs http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DailyDao/message/4402 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DailyDao/message/4402 Chapter 43 The softest thing in the world dashes against and overcomes the hardest; that which has no (substantial) existence enters where there is no crevice. Wed, 01 Jul 2009 08:40:50 GMT Sue in NJ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DailyDao/message/4401 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DailyDao/message/4401 FLOW If the boulders are moved, Even a river will change its flow. Except for occasional flooding, the mightiest river keeps to its bed. It flows where it Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:41:18 GMT Chris Childs http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DailyDao/message/4400 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DailyDao/message/4400 Chapter 42 The Tao produced One; One produced Two; Two produced Three; Three produced All things. All things leave behind them the Obscurity (out of which they Tue, 30 Jun 2009 08:45:14 GMT Sue in NJ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DailyDao/message/4399 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DailyDao/message/4399 Day 181 AXLE The mind is in spinning wheels at the Navel, heart, throat, head. The connecting shaft is emptiness. Without an unobstructed route, Energy cannot Mon, 29 Jun 2009 13:14:42 GMT Chris Childs http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DailyDao/message/4398 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DailyDao/message/4398 Chapter 41 Scholars of the highest class, when they hear about the Tao, earnestly carry it into practice. Scholars of the middle class, when they have heard Mon, 29 Jun 2009 08:49:44 GMT Sue in NJ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DailyDao/message/4397 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DailyDao/message/4397 FORCE A sword is never sheathed Until it has tasted blood. A good swordsman Is seldom seen with a sword. Many centuries ago, there was a wanderer who was Sun, 28 Jun 2009 15:35:34 GMT Chris Childs http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DailyDao/message/4396 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DailyDao/message/4396 Chapter 40 The movement of the Tao By contraries proceeds; And weakness marks the course Of Tao's mighty deeds. All things under heaven sprang from It as Sun, 28 Jun 2009 10:07:37 GMT Sue in NJ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DailyDao/message/4395 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DailyDao/message/4395 WAR Weapons are tools of ill omen Wielded by the ignorant. If their use is unavoidable, The wise act with restraint. The greatest sorrow is to be a veteran, Sat, 27 Jun 2009 16:59:30 GMT Chris Childs http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DailyDao/message/4394 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DailyDao/message/4394 Chapter 39 The things which from of old have got the One (the Tao) are-- Heaven which by it is bright and pure; Earth rendered thereby firm and sure; Spirits