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Tao -- Fifty-Four

Whoever is planted in the Tao

will not be rooted up.
Whoever embraces the Tao
will not slip away.
Her name will be held in honor

from generation to generation.

Let the Tao be present in your life
and you will become genuine.
Let it be present in your family
and your family will flourish.

Let it be present in your country
and your country will be an example
to all the countries in the world.
Let it be present in the universe
and the universe will sing.

How do I know this is true?

By looking inside myself.

Quotations Regarding the Tao - IV

The following are excerpts from the book, “Tao: The Pathless Path” by Osho.

“Whenever anything is of discipline, Tao is against it.  Whenever anything is of spontaneity, Tao is for it.  Tao is spontaneity, Tao is suchness, Tao is a tremendous acceptance of whatsoever is.  And in that acceptance one flowers.”

“Once you start intellectualizing about life, you start going astray.  Life has to be lived.  Life has to be lived existentially and not intellectually.  Intellect is not a bridge but a barrier.”

“The scholar has decided that first he has to understand intellectually, then he will move.  Now, this is no way to move.  First you have to move, and then comes understanding.”

“The Taoist is always happy because he does not wait for any cause; he does not wait for any special situation in which he is going to be happy.  Happiness is like breathing, happiness is like the beat of the heart—happiness is his being, it is not something that happens to him.  Happiness is not something that happens and does not happen, happiness is something that is always there.  He is full of happiness. Happiness is the stuff that existence is made of, and a Taoist has fallen in harmony with existence—naturally he is happy.”

“The Taoist maturity is so tremendous, is of such splendor, is of such depth and height, that no religion can be compared to it; they all look like kindergarten schools—made especially for children.”

Tao - Fifty-Three

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 weapons instead of cures;
when the upper class is extravagant and irresponsible

while the poor have nowhere to turn--
all this is robbery and chaos.

It is not in keeping with the Tao.

Quotations Regarding the Tao - III

The following are excerpts from the book, “Tao: The Pathless Path” by Osho.

“Let this be the definition of happiness: To be with the whole is to be happy; to be with the whole is to be healthy; to be with the whole is to be holy.  To be separate is to be unhealthy; to be separate is to be neurotic; to be separate is to fall from grace. 

The fall of man is not because he has disobeyed God.  The fall is because he thinks he is.  The fall is because man thinks that he is a separate entity.”

“Contentment comes only when you are not comparing, when you are simply within yourself, totally in yourself—centered, rooted…true music comes only when you are deeply rooted in yourself.  Then you become the instrument and the whole plays on it.”

“Life comes only through being, not through having.”

“Comparison is the root cause of misery.  To be noncomparative—to be neither higher nor lower, just to be yourself, no to think in relation to others, just to think in terms of your tremendous aloneness—then you are happy.”

Tao - Fifty-Two

In the beginning was the Tao.
All things issue from it;
all things return to it.

To find the origin
trace back the manifestations.
When you recognize the children
and find the mother,

you will be free of sorrow.

If you close your mind in judgements
and traffic with desires,
your heart will be troubled.
If you keep your mind from judging
and aren’t led by the senses,
your heart will find peace.

Seeing into darkness is clarity.
knowing how to yield is strength.
Use your own light
and return to the source of light.
This is called practicing eternity.

Quotations Regarding the Tao - II

The following are excerpts from the book, “Tao: The Pathless Path” by Osho.

“The poet is in search.  His search is for the beautiful, but beauty is nothing but truth glimpsed.  Truth, when you just glimpse it for a moment, appears as beauty.  When truth is realized totally, then you come to know that beauty was only a function of truth.  Wherever truth exists, there exists beauty—it is a shadow of truth.  When truth is seen through screens, it is beauty; when beauty is naked, it is truth.

So the difference between the poet and the mystic is not much.  The poet is coming closer, the mystic has arrived.  For the poet, there are only glimpses of truth; for the mystic, truth has become his very life.  The poet is only sometimes transported to the world of truth and then falls back again.  For the mystic, truth has become his abode: he lives there; he lives as truth.”

"Poets come closest to religiousness.  Thinkers, philosophers, logicians, theologians, scientists, are very far away.”

“Tao means to exist on the way, and to exist in such a way that the way and you are not two.  This existence is one—we are not separate from it.  The separation, the idea of separation, is very illusory.  We are joined together, we are one whole.  We are not islands, we are one continent.  You are in me, I am in you.  The trees are in you, you are in the trees.  It is an interconnected whole.”