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Taoism Quotes by Frederick Lenz

74 Taoism quotes by Frederick Lenz

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Grand Canyon’s river shows how water can carve lasting power over many years. Lenz’s notes describe Taoism as a simple, child‑like way that embraces differences and follows the path of the fool, letting obstacles be bypassed like water around a blockage. The focus is on natural flow and humble perspective.

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We create ying and yang, yes and no, plus and minus.

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Our seeing is sexual initially.

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Most beings enjoy existence so time comes into being.

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Lao Tsu says the way of life is water, to be fluid.

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Enlightenment comes through the feminine side of the being.

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Initially there's absolutely nothing.

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When we have complements or oppositions, change occurs.

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Water is the symbol of pure consciousness.

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There is another kind of wisdom, the wisdom of following - the wisdom of not taking the lead with your ego.

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The Chinese used the symbol of tai chi, the undifferentiated reality - no separation, no left and right.

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When there's no difference, there's no time, no world, no separativity - and there's no you ... nor is there an I.

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Gradually, you were given a description of the world, a way of seeing, which is largely sexual.

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The sound man, immune as to a sacrifice of straw dogs, faces the passing human generations.

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For a person who lives in time, differences are the most important thing because they represent your existence.

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Without innocence, nothing can further, as they say in the I Ching.

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Wisdom is knowing that if you bend, you don't have to break. Sometimes it is necessary to go with the flow of…

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When it reaches a blockage, water find the easiest path around the blockage, or it continues to assemble, and flows over the…

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Lao Tsu uses the anology of the tree. The old hard tree breaks and falls when the wind blows. The young tree…

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The Grand Canyon is living evidence of the power of water over a period of time. The power may not manifest immediately.…

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Get some distance on yourself and undertand the multilevel structure that's operating. There's a power structure within you. You're a very political…

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Chaos is not disorder. Chaos is the totality of existence. You could call it God. You could use the term, the Tao.…

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We really have no choice in the matter. We are given a description of the world that is much more potent and…

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Examine everything that you've been taught, not simply what you've been taught in school, but the images that have been held up…

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Taoism means streching your being, becoming both a man and a woman and joining within yourself, to be the heavens themselves, to…

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If we're distracted from the continual flow of perfect mind that we're in, suddenly everything configures, everything solidifies. Suddenly a shape appears…

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Enlightenment is part of everything and so our minds have to be very big to encompass all things, to understand all things…

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The I Ching tells us that for every ending there is a new beginning. In other words, what appears like a transition…

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In the West when you talk about yin and yang, people normally think of yin and yang as something that's linear. But…

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Taoism is the gentle way. The path of least resistence.

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There is no way to measure it ... because there's no one to measure it.

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The I Cing is a study in duality and what lies beyond duality.

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Male and female are the first things we learn because they represent the polarity of existence.

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Water uses itself to go beyond whatever it needs to go beyond.

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Taoism is the way of water. The most frequent element or symbol refered to in Lao Tzu's wrtings is the symbol of…

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Lao Tsu doesn't seem to hold to much stock for words or phrases or teachings.

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The mind of the child is not formed. We are shown that this is life, this is the world.

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There are two choices available in duality - one side or the other side. Everyting is formed from that.

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Taoism shows us how to deal with life and death by realizing everything here is transitory but its substance is eternal:

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In the West the wise are usually thought of as leaders. In the East, the wise are very often though of as…

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Water always seeks the easiest path, the common level of life.

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Balance is the ability to be happy in the midst of the most chaotic or even boring or transient circumstance.

The sound man, immune as to a sacrifice of straw dogs, faces the passing human generations.

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You and I are both life. There's just the experience of every moment. We like to call them moments. There isn't really such a…

Why waste your time being around people who drag you down? You don't live forever, at least in this life.

Everybody here is so caught up in the game of life they don't see death. They don't see beyond their deaths. They are on…