Tao Te Ching: Chapter #10

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Can you coax your mind from its wandering
and keep to the original oneness?

Can you focus your wandering mind on the Tao? 

Can you let your body become
supple as a newborn child's?

Can you wake up your body from the stiffness and rigidity of adult life, and rediscover the softness and flexibility that is proper to childhood?

Can you cleanse your inner vision
until you see nothing but the light?

Can you clear your perception from the distortion of the ego and see the Tao? 

Can you love people and lead them
without imposing your will?
by letting events take their course?

Can you lead without forcing or trying to have absolute control? And you understand that you can do this by letting things take their course, setting a clear direction, then stepping back? Do you remember the WuWei?

Can you step back from you own mind
and thus understand all things?

Can you detach from your personal biases, desires, judgments, and knowledge that filter and distort your reality? Can you become the observer of your mind? Do you realise that the "pure perception", not intellectualisation, allows one to understand all things?

Giving birth and nourishing,
having without possessing,
acting with no expectations,
leading and not trying to control:
this is the supreme virtue.

It is a synthesis of Taoist ethics. The Tao creates and sustains everything, without needing anything in return and without claiming ownership. Then follow the principles derived from this model. The supreme virtue is a life lived according to these principles: having without possessing; acting with no expectations means doing good work for its own sake, without needing praise or reward; and leading and not trying to control is the practice of Wu Wei in guiding others.  

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