Let your emotions dissolve. Do what you think is impossible. In this way your mind will be empty, and the monsters of illusion will not be able to capture you. If your mind is emptied of thoughts, then how can ego exist? Let there be no duality between you and others; no ego of your own and in your mind no egos of others. You must seek the Tao naturally. Do not force yourself. Do what you can do. Do not attempt what is beyond you at the moment. Some are destined to walk the highest path, others the middle, and yet others the lower path. Accept your path and walk it diligently. Those who walk the lower path should not envy those who walk the higher path... The shaved head of a Buddhist and the topknot of the Taoist do not make a monk. If your mind is still attached to forms, if you have not dissolved the attachments to I and Other, Past and Future, then even though you don the attire of a monk your heart will still be like that of a wild animal. If you still harbor greed, envy, desire for fame and riches, you are not truly one who has abandoned the world. From Eva Wongs translation of Seven Taoist Masters. Author unknown.
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