"Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt. Chase after money and security and your heart will never unclench. Care about people's approval and you will be their prisoner. Do your work, then step back. The only path to serenity."- Tao Te Ching.The Tao Te Ching is one of my spiritual guides to life. What it teaches is very similar to Zen Buddhism-- essentially to know yourself and to live a rich spiritual life is the only way to inner peace. How is this possible? Meditation, of course; but meditation is only a guide into understanding that one's inner nature is no different from the Tao, or what I like to call God. That is the most important insight of Tao and Buddhism. There is no point to seek God... we are all God.
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