Thomas's Monday Morning Poetry

Good morning all.

Last week I sent a little snippet of verse from the ‘Tao te Ching’, which is the first great classic of the Chinese school of philosophy called Taoism.
Well, here’s some more, and I shall be sending extracts out for the next few weeks.

China was once the major player in world economics and is on the brink of being the dominant force once again. Crisis, they are even promoting cricket- their names are going to be unpronounceable.

It is because every one under Heaven recognizes beauty
As beauty, that the idea of ugliness exists.
And equally if every one recognized virtue as virtue,
This would merely create fresh conceptions of
Wickedness.
For truly ‘Being and Not-being grow out of one another;
Difficult and easy complete one another.
Long and short test one another.
High and low determine one another.
Pitch and mode give harmony to one another.
Front and back give sequence to one another.’
Therefore the sage relies on actionless activity,
Carries on wordless teaching,
But the myriad creatures are worked upon by him; he
Does not disown them.
HE rears them, but does not lay claim to them,
Controls them, but does not lean upon them,
Achieves his aim, but does not call attention to what he does;
And for the very reason that he does not call attention to what he does
He is not rejected from fruition of what he has done.

Tootle pip,
Thomas