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Act without considering it to be acting. Work without considering it to be working. Taste without considering it to be tasting. Big or small, many or few - respond to complaints with virtue. Plan for difficult times when they're still easy to change. What becomes enormous was once something minute. All the difficulties in the world arise from what was originally easy to change. Everything enormous in the world arises from what was originally minute. It's natural for the wise person to end up not having to act on what's become enormous, and therefore has the ability to achieve what's great. You see, lightly making promises must show a lack of sincerity. If many things are taken lightly, then many things will cause difficulty. It's natural for a wise person to keep in touch with what might become difficult. Therefore, he ends up without difficulties.  Commentary: 63 ~ Starting with sincerity -Act without considering it to be acting. -Work without considering it to be working. -Taste without considering it to be tasting. -Big or small, many or few - respond to complaints with virtue. If we act from our hearts with sincerity, anything we do becomes so natural that it it isn't done with expectations. We act without having a sense that we're doing anything special. We complete our work for the joy of doing it. It becomes as simple as biting into a juicy apple simply for the experience of tasting it. Even if others complain or berate us for the things we do, there's no reason to get angry at them. Our responses come from the sincerity in our own hearts (virtue). -Plan for difficult times when they're still easy to change. -What becomes enormous was once something minute. -All the difficulties in the world arise from what was originally easy to change. -Everything enormous in the world arises from what was originally minute. Most problems and misunderstandings arise from something completely insignificant. People tend to harbor grudges or are afraid to say what they're really feeling, and eventually they end up turning something that could have been dealt with easily into a time bomb. -It's natural for the wise person to end up not having to act on what's become enormous, and therefore has the ability to achieve what's great. A wise person doesn't wait around for things to escalate into explosions. The greatness she achieves is in being able to settle the waters early on, thus everyone benefits. -You see, lightly making promises must show a lack of sincerity. -If many things are taken lightly, then many things will cause difficulty. People tend to make many promises they could never keep. That's because they want to brush misunderstandings under the rug as though they'll just go away. If matters are dealt with as though they're minor annoying disturbances, and promises are made simply to try to alleviate an uncomfortable situation, then that shows complete lack of sincerity or consideration. By taking things too lightly, you'd end up causing more problems later. -It's natural for a wise person to keep in touch with what might become difficult. -Therefore, he ends up without difficulties. A wise person has the sense that anything they come across in life has the propensity for turning into a time bomb. He ends up without having to deal with serious complications because he remains true to his heart in everything he does. By being explicit and clarifying things right from the start, he doesn't have to deal with enormous problems later. | BY: Nina | Guodian Laozi | DDJ Concordance | Comparisons | From the DIO Forum | BY: Bao Pu | By: Joshua | | Return Home | Laozi's Dao De Jing | Your Dao De Jing | Zhuangzi (Chuang Tzu) | Links | Meditation | Dao (Tao) is Open Forum | Book List | Other Stuff | |
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