Forum Post: Tao Te Ching Translation - Verse 19 of 81
Posted 12 years ago on Oct. 8, 2011, 7:29 p.m. EST by LaoTzu
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"Abandon holiness Discard cleverness and the people will benefit a hundredfold Abandon the rules of "kindness" Discard "righteous" actions and the people will return to their own natural affections Abandon book learning Discard the rules of behavior and the people will have no worries Abandon plots and schemes and the people will not become thieves
These lessons are mere elaborations The essence of my teachings is this: See with original purity Embrace with original simplicity Reduce what you have Decrease what you want" - Lao Tzu
"A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone." -Thoreau
the more you got, the more you want, the greater the stress, the greater the unhappiness, the faster the death
Exactly! :)