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Happiness is found when you stop Looking, Our greatest happiness consists In doing nothing whatever is calculated to obtain happiness. I cease striving for happiness Right and wrong at once become apparent All by themselves. Practicing non-doing...you will have both happiness And well-being. Heaven does nothing...its non doing is its serenity. Earth does nothing...its non doing is its rest From this union of non-doings All actions proceed, All things are made. How vast, how invisible This coming-to-be! All things come from nowhere How vast, how invisible... No way to explain it All beings in their perfection Are born of non-doing. Hence it is said: Heaven and earth do nothing Yet there is nothing they do not do. Where is the man and woman Who can attain To this non-doing? Chuang Tzu
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May 5, 2015
May 5, 2015 at 2:34 PM UTC
Happiness is Non-Doing
Happiness is found when you stop Looking, Our greatest happiness consists In doing nothing whatever is calculated to obtain happiness. I cease striving for happiness Right and wrong at once become apparent All by themselves. Practicing non-doing...you will have both happiness And well-being. Heaven does nothing...its non doing is its serenity. Earth does nothing...its non doing is its rest From this union of non-doings All actions proceed, All things are made. How vast, how invisible This coming-to-be! All things come from nowhere How vast, how invisible... No way to explain it All beings in their perfection Are born of non-doing. Hence it is said: Heaven and earth do nothing Yet there is nothing they do not do. Where is the man and woman Who can attain To this non-doing? Chuang Tzu
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audrey-hepburn-jamison
Vancouver
May 5, 2015
May 5, 2015 at 2:34 PM UTC
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