Re:Post (Suppleness)
I believe this was one of the first posts I ever put on this blog, but I still find this selection from the Tao te Ching fascinating and meaningful and, since I just found it again, I wish to repost:
Men are born soft and supple;dead, they are stiff and hard.
Plants are born tender and pliant;
dead, they are brittle and dry.
Thus whoever is stiff and inflexible
is a disciple of death.
Whoever is soft and yielding
is a disciple of life.
The hard and stiff will be broken.
The soft and supple will prevail.
[Tao te Ching, #76]
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6 comments:
whoa, super cool!
The Colts defense was strong and supple. They prevailed. Congrats
The Tao Te Ching is so beautiful. It is one of my favorite spiritual texts. I refer to it often as well.
Namaste.
Julie... um, thanks, wrote it myself. :)
Kevin - ROCK! Thanks.
James - Namaste...
Trev,
Looking back on first posts, early writings and influences...this quote fits you, your personality and gives a good indication as to who Trev Diesel is and what his blog is about.
Interesting how my second post to my blog a couple of years ago caught your attention and resulted in our friendship as well as a meeting with many more like-minded souls who are now friends.
It isn't in our nature as civilized Westerners to rest comfortably with being labeled "soft", or "supple."
But, it is our very essence: we are born soft and supple and we are taught ways resulting in our inflexibility, stiffness, leading to our unbending-ness.
Perhaps we need to break, to snap in the wind to learn more and more of the full truth of our being. Sometimes the lesson learned the hard way- at least for me- is more useful.
Tom-
Ya, man. Thanks for this feedback. It's certainly not the western way to be flexible and flowing. Especially as a male. Yet, this passage is right on.
Maybe we do need to learn "the hard way" sometimes.
BTW - Glad I found that post of yours! :-)
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