The Complex Days

complexdays@gmail.com (The Complex Days) — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 03:44:59 PST

***** You are what you become *****

complexdays@gmail.com (The Complex Days) — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 04:20:01 PST

>> They know not that the land of rest is in our teaching.

complexdays@gmail.com (The Complex Days) — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 03:46:58 PST

>> by using the names of gods as bribes,
they draw to themselves the slaves of others.

complexdays@gmail.com (The Complex Days) — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:41:43 PST

>> I venture to ask how to exalt virtue, to
correct cherished evil, and to discover delusions.

The Master said, "Truly a good question!"

complexdays@gmail.com (The Complex Days) — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 05:55:31 PST

Is the world good?

>> Yes, the world is good.
It divides and distributes good things.

Changing seasons, the fruits of the earth,
birth, increase, maturity
and other similar gifts.

complexdays@gmail.com (The Complex Days) — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 05:48:45 PST

>> architecture is learning to dance.

complexdays@gmail.com (The Complex Days) — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 13:30:50 PST

complexdays@gmail.com (The Complex Days) — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 02:04:22 PST

Reality is not upon the earth.

>> There are only appearances and opinions.
The things which are here are perishable, changing, various,
passing from form to form.

All that transforms itself is illusive
by the appearances which it presents to us
one after another.

complexdays@gmail.com (The Complex Days) — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 13:43:32 PST

>> Order and time produce the renewal of all things.

complexdays@gmail.com (The Complex Days) — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 10:08:58 PST

>> because they appear distant from one another
it is believed that they are many.

complexdays@gmail.com (The Complex Days) — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 12:58:01 PST

>> from the center to the uttermost parts
everything moves
and relations are established according to natural analogies.

diversity is resolved into unity.

complexdays@gmail.com (The Complex Days) — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 09:49:58 PST

>> the whole meaning of this section
is to make clear to the pupil the method of filling up the oil
when meeting life.

here the eyes are the chief thing.

complexdays@gmail.com (The Complex Days) — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 09:43:48 PST

how is water able to bring its virtue to perfection?

>> The weakest thing in all the world
is able to overcome the strongest.

Issuing from nothingness, it returns to nowhere
and from this we know that there is advantage in non-action.

complexdays@gmail.com (The Complex Days) — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 03:54:23 PST

>> The knowledge of all creatures depends on their breath.

complexdays@gmail.com (The Complex Days) — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 12:55:40 PST

complexdays@gmail.com (The Complex Days) — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 13:37:20 PST

>> there is nothing more visible than what is secret.

complexdays@gmail.com (The Complex Days) — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 11:03:07 PST

>> They regard their name not as a mere label,
but as a distinct part of their personality.

They believe that injury will result
from the malicious handling of their name
as from a wound inflicted on any part of their physical organism.

complexdays@gmail.com (The Complex Days) — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 05:58:19 PST

>> motion produces nothing but motion.

complexdays@gmail.com (The Complex Days) — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 08:55:09 PST

>> the path is not far.

complexdays@gmail.com (The Complex Days) — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 10:52:31 PST

>> when the mind is not present, we look and do not see.

This is what is meant by saying
that the cultivation of the person
depends on the rectifying of the mind.

complexdays@gmail.com (The Complex Days) — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 13:05:13 PST

It is said, "Ah! the former kings are not forgotten".

Future princes deem worthy what they deemed worthy
and love what they loved.

>> The common people delight in what delighted them
and are benefited by their beneficial arrangements.

It is on this account that the former kings,
after they having left the world,
are not forgotten.

complexdays@gmail.com (The Complex Days) — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 13:10:17 PST

>> In other bodies, your rebirth will be different.

complexdays@gmail.com (The Complex Days) — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 06:06:25 PST

>> They will stretch forth their daring hands over the sea
and, cutting down the timber of the wild forest,
they will pass from shore to shore seeking one another.

They will pursue the inmost secrets of Nature even into the heights,
and will study the motions of heaven.

The Virgin Of The World

complexdays@gmail.com (The Complex Days) — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 03:42:54 PDT

>> When nothing yet remains to be known
than the furthest boundary of the earth,
they will seek even there the last extremities of night.

If they apprehend no obstacle, if they live exempt from trouble
beyond reach of any fear or of any anxiety,
even heaven itself will not arrest their audacity.

They will seek to extend their power over the elements.

complexdays@gmail.com (The Complex Days) — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 03:23:31 PST

>> The things that are not true to themselves,
how can they be true?