ordinary minds

  • Dao De Jing – Chapter 49

    The sage has no invariable mind of his own; he makes the mind of the people his mind.To those who are good (to me), I am good; and to those who are not good (to me), I am also good; – and thus (all) get to be good. To those who are sincere (with…

  • Dao De Jing – Chapter 41

    Like voices resonate in harmony, akin energies seek mutual accord. In Dao De Jing terms, this mirrors Chapter 23’s teaching: “Those aligned with the Dao become one with the Dao”.

  • Dao De Jing – Chapter 37

    The Dao in its regular course does nothing (for the sake of doing it), and so there is nothing which it does not do.If princes and kings were able to maintain it, all things would of themselves be transformed by them.If this transformation became to me an object of desire, I would express the…