The effort of not doing. You do nothing and everything happens by itself. You must restrain any attempt to do, to judge, to desire, to change or to change. The king sits on his throne and contemplates, but under his attentive gaze everything is done by itself.
Those who seek the truth are like moths flying to the fire. Those who seek to lie are like drowned men with a stone around their necks, or fish jumping out of the water. The impartial is like one who has built a fire and is cooking fish stew in a pot.
Banging on someone's door is a stupid idea. Happiness is the Tao, that is, the movement towards one's goal, one's doors and one's roads. Your path will not resist you, it will pull you, beckon to him like a magnet.
They say the way is what you can't see. It's a lie. No one sees the way except the one who walks it. Once I walked on water and saw the way, from the outside it seemed that I just walked on water.
Virtue is constancy in action. Consistency breeds accuracy... Permanence does not require effort and does not consume energy, but creates energy. Consistency helps the movements, as the flow of the river downstream.
Directing all your will to the realization of the intention, it is as if you are building drainage channels from an overflowing reservoir, redirecting energy to the right direction. Willpower is weak, but the power of energy flow in such channels is huge. Energy channels, willpower rushing to the intended purpose, generate conductivity.
He who is calm is like a lake, and he who is not is a stream flowing into that lake. Tranquility is the restraint. Restraint gives form to energy and, like a magnet, attracts it.
The way requires courage, courage conquers fear. Fear is the brake that keeps you from walking. Movement, that creates a way, fear prevents movement. When you conquer fear, you will find the way.
It's hard when you're carrying someone else's. Its mission and meaning of life is easy. Following the flow of Tao is easy and joyful. What is done with love is easy.
It is not difficult to follow the path, the path is like falling into an abyss. It is difficult to step into the abyss. It's hard to let go of affection. It is difficult to find the wisdom and courage not to die of fear and despondency during the endless fall into the abyss.
Every religion offers its cure for neurosis. Buddhism offered renunciation of desires and attachments. Christianity is humility. Taoism is the effort of not doing.
The point of focusing on mindfulness and clarity is to achieve luminosity. Luminosity is the state of the flow of truth energy, the basis of the power of the perfect.