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you will see how simple life is.
As you learn not knowing,
your heart will find its way home.
mindless as a newborn calf,
you will no longer exhaust yourself
looking for impossible answers
and wandering in search of Why?
happy with what life brings you.
Stephen Mitchell
The Second Book of The Tao
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re: Second Book of Tao quote above
Given a choice between being Einstein and being a newborn calf,
most people would choose the former.
But this chapter is not about stupidity versus intelligence.
There’s a great deal of intelligence in the mindlessness of a newborn calf,
which is further along in its self-reliance than a newborn baby,
even a baby Einstein.
The calf, in fact knows everything it needs to know.
All the important questions are answered for it, forever.
He could simply have said “Simplify” since a word to the wise is sufficient.
But for our unwisdom, he raised the decibel level.
He may even have had to shout at Einstein, who was a master of simplicity, thought not of simplifying his own life.
All honor to him, and yet he would have given his eyeteeth
to understand the mind of God,
which every newborn calf or suckling infant can manage.
A Theory of Everything?
What is is.
How simple can it get?
Stephen Mitchell
Beautiful photos of above House on a Dune that is y/our Envisioned Sanctarii
you will see how simple life is.
As you learn not knowing,
your heart will find its way home.
Content as a suckling infant,
mindless as a newborn calf,
you will no longer exhaust yourself
looking for impossible answers
and wandering in search of Why?
You will come to rest in the Tao,
happy with what life brings you.
Stephen Mitchell
The Second Book of The Tao
Compiled and adapted from the
Chuang-tze and the Chung Yung,
with commentaries
by
Stephen Mitchell
Commentary
Given a choice between being Einstein and being a newborn calf, most people would choose the former. But this chapter is not about stupidity versus intelligence. There’s a great deal of intelligence in the mindlessness of a newborn calf, which is further along in its self-reliance than a newborn baby, even a baby Einstein. The calf, in fact knows everything it needs to know. All the important questions are answered for it, forever.
“Simplify, simplify,” our friend Thoreau said. He could simply have said “Simplify” since a word to the wise is sufficient. But for our unwisdom, he raised the decibel level. He may even have had to shout at Einstein, who was a master of simplicity, thought not of simplifying his own life. All honor to him, and yet he would have given his eyeteeth to understand the mind of God, which every newborn calf or suckling infant can manage.
A Theory of Everything?
What is is.
How simple can it get?
Stephen Mitchell