Ease and Play

Which is more valued, reputation or wisdom? Which is more reliable, appearance or substance? Choose between certainty or uncertainty, between consistencey or understanding.

Rely on certainty, reputation and consistency, and the cost will be dear. Hold firmly to truths and there will be breaking. Invest in ideals, invent the high and sacred, and there will be no end of trouble.

The Tao is wide enough for contraditcions, satisfying enough for disconforts, deep enough for the lowest.

Open to everything, hold to nothing. Without preparation, be ready for everything. Let go and change amid everything's changing. Deep accord arises by releasing.

In changing there is something unchanging. How do chaging and unchanging reside toghether? Ease and play, show the way.


- A infinta mudança, em busca da essência. Que está sempre lá, imutável. Está aqui, em mim, aí, em ti, lá, no sentimento do mundo.

The Tao of Being