A piece of wisdom from
November 3, 2021 · Wednesday
The quote
“Do not be proud of your knowledge. Take counsel with the ignorant as well as the wise. The limits of skill cannot be reached. No one is fully equipped with the skill at his fingertips.”
— Ptahhotep · Maat
The concept
The Tao
The way of effortless action, when to stop pushing, when to begin.
Two thousand five hundred years before "burnout" became a word, Lao Tzu was writing about the cost of forcing. The Tao Te Ching, 81 short verses, is the most translated text in human history after the Bible, and the cleanest counter to mode…
A practice for today
When the next difficult feeling arrives, ask yourself: the lesson of The Tao. The way of effortless action, when to stop pushing, when to begin.
From the Bhagavad Gita
Verse 4.8
परित्राणाय साधूनां विनाशाय च दुष्कृताम्। धर्मसंस्थापनार्थाय सम्भवामि युगे युगे॥
“For the protection of the good, for the destruction of the wicked, and to re-establish dharma, I am born age after age.”
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