Peace by Tao Te Ching: Chapter 52

The chapter 52 of The Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu, talks about the beginning and eternity, and with the same breath, the mind troubled by desires (control) and judgments (guilt) are freed.  Time stops when one finds peace.

“…If you close your mind in judgments
and traffic with desires,
your heart will be troubled.
If you keep your mind from judging
and aren’t led by the senses,
your heart will find peace. …”

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  ( This ancient wisdom is free here (poetic translation) and there (literal translation).  )

lazarus

a friend of mine wrote a poem about the name of this clinic.

lazarus

- Craig Edward Flaherty

no intention in the tilt
that births seasons

an accident that summer
patches blue with light

that autumn patches same
with clouds that winter

strips to bristles
the luxuriousness of forest
the persistence of leaves

angled out of attachment
willingly abandoned to the cold

of wind rain ice snow       let go
also with the scheming freeze

fungi strings knots their speech arrested
long nights entombed       closed coffins

but the unintended tilt of spring
frees the rigor trembles the core
makes flow pump and pound

Anxiety squeezed in between two generations.

Serenity

This is for Ms. E with some readings. Many people who continue to have anxieties and panic attacks do get certain levels of triggers from the environment. Among people, place, and things, people often play a big role provoking anxiety in one’s mind.  Here is a reading for mothers who are overwhelmed with their children, playing with anxiety, and another for daughters who care for their parents: this is to mother you.  One of the authors of the former reading has a practice and a website, that can help those who want to help themselves. It happened to be that both of these articles talk about how to take care of people who cause great anxieties to others. Taking focus off oneself and caring for others can be one way of eliminating one’s anxiety.

 

the beginning

This is the post excerpt.

Let’s start a journey together.  Let’s stop dissecting a person into Internal Medicine, Cardiology, Endocrinology, Psychiatry, etc. as we are one wholesome distinctive individual who needs a community or so, for this rough waves, called life.

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