Day 91 FUNERAL Hearse of weathered black enamel, Undertakers fingering cigarettes. Family, some crying, some bored, Some only thinking of themselves. Hired...
Day 92 ACCURACY Make every move count. Pick your target and hit it. Perfect concentration means Effortless flowing. A life that is spiritual requires focused...
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Day 93 CONFIDENCE Truth perceived gives assurance. Skill yields self-reliance. With courage, we can defy danger. To increase power, increase humility. Through...
Day 94 PRACTICE Spiritual success is gained by daily cultivation. If you practiced for the day, then you have won. If you were lazy for the day, then you have...
Day 95 TRAVEL Body is the tabernacle. Traveling one thousand miles, The gods are still in place. The body is the temple of the gods. It should be kept clean...
Day 96 CONSTANCY Clear sunlight on falling snow: fire and ice. Bare-boned trees stark to the horizon, Cold marshes, havens to ducks and geese. A groundhog sits...
Day 97 ENCOURAGEMENT One thousand miles from home, I open the same prayer book. Some nights it was only obligation; Tonight, it is comfort. It's best to be...
58. Political Reversal Its regime is torpid its people are guileless. Its government is critically discriminating its people are deficient. Calamity! The...
Day 98 FAREWELL We part at the crossroads, You leave with your joys and problems, I with mine. Alone, I look down the road. Each one must walk one's own path. ...
Day 99 HOMECOMING Where was Tao while I was gone? Wasn't I following it where I went? Do you think that there are two? After traveling awhile, we come home to...
Day 100 IMAGINATION Imagination is pale and fragile, Dreams grip with a false reality. Imagination can build bridges, Dreams can deceive. When we dream, the...
59. A Sensible Guide In governing people and serving nature, nothing is better than conserving. In general, only conserving deserves to be called early...
Day 101 CONCENTRATION Imagination, song, the soaring spirit. Separate them to know them as aspects of the whole, Join them to know the mystery of totality. The...
Day 102 AWARENESS Outer eyes Cannot see themselves. The inner eye Is its own reflection When we look we can see many things, but the eyes cannot see themselves...
Day 103 RECIPROCITY Hands grasp, but also give. Mouth tastes, but also speaks. Nose breathes, but also smells. Eyes see, but also show. Ears hear, but also...
Day 104 READINESS A knife keeps its edge Only with honing and proper cutting. A warrior's virtue is readiness. A sage's virtue is awareness. This life is so...
Day 105 COMPASSION Once you've seen the face of god, You see that same face on everyone you meet. The true god has no face. The true Tao has no name. But we...
Day 106 CAREFREE Two ducks nestled in lake-side grass. Both marked by the same brilliant purple at the wing. Water provides food, bath, and play, What need do...
Day 107 WITHDRAWAL Activity is essential, but exhausting, And its importance is only on the surface. Withdraw into Tao at the end of the day. Returning is...
60. Skill at Ruling Ruling a large state Is like grilling a small bit of fresh food. Using a guide to manage the social world Its ghost does not energize. If...
Day 108 NUMBERS One gives birth to two, two gives birth to three, Three gives birth to the ten thousand. One hundred and eight counts make one cycle, Constant...
61. Virtuosity at Using 'Beneath' Those which are great states flow downward. The interchanges in the social world! The female of the social world! The female...
Day 109 FUNDAMENTALS After completion Come new beginnings. To gain strength, Renew the root. In music, the fundamental tone is the lowest, or root, tone of a ...
Day 110 INVOCATION Invocation becomes declaration; Worship becomes recognition. When blessings mature, One glimpses the source. When one is young in Tao, all...
Day 111 TRADITION Tradition was once function. But today there is no tradition. Where is there a true path? In the past, people didn't question the teachings...
62. Construing a Guide A guide is a mystery among the ten-thousand natural kinds. A treasure to worthy people. That which non-worthy people sustain. Beautiful...
Day 112 NONANTICIPATION Put forth your effort With no thought of gain. One should not pray or meditate with any thought of gain. Hold no expectations. Then the...
63. Origins in Reversal Treat lacking deem-action as 'deem-acting'. Treat having no social affair as 'social affair'. Treat the absence of flavor as 'flavor'. ...
Day 113 ACCEPTANCE Drought burns basins to dust, Light rain is a dew of mockery. Receive without complaint, Work with fate. When the countryside is gripped in...
