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| A newborn is soft and tender, A crone, hard and stiff. Plants and animals, in life, are supple and succulent; In death, withered and dry. So softness and tenderness are attributes of life, And hardness and stiffness, attributes of death. Just as a sapless tree will split and decay So an inflexible force will meet defeat; The hard and mighty lie beneath the ground While the tender and weak dance on the breeze above. |
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| These are the words of the Tao Te Ching. Such beauty such truth. When we are alive we are soft and pliable, our minds are open to whatever Life hands to us. Dead, we are stiff and easily broken. Thus, those who are inflexible and closed minded are dead and those who are flexible and open minded are alive. | |||||||||||||||||||||
| The inflexible are easily defeated because they can only see one way. Their minds are closed to only one way when there are many. They live in turmoil and unease, never finding true peace because their inflexibility leads to disharmony. The tumult of the inflexible leads them to seek out those they can control and bend to their way. They have an innate need to overpower and control all around them. | |||||||||||||||||||||
| The flexible, on the other hand, are open-minded and seek only justice and harmony. They lead a peaceful existence. They encounter the inflexible but they refrain from reducing themselves to being like them. | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Flexibility - this is the only way. | |||||||||||||||||||||
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