Tao Te Ching
Liu Yiming 刘一明
(Liu I-ming)
1734 – 1821 CE
11th-generation Shanxi Dragon GateTaoist master, doctor, merchant, coolie, builder and main representative of the Neidan school of Internal Alchemy; Liu Yiming alternated travel, seclusion, and intense practice during his early life and then settled into teaching and writing, restoring temples, and helping poor families. He taught the unity of the ”Three Teachings" (Taoism, Buddhism, and Confucianism) and how they complement, enrich, and support each other. He described Lao Tzu’s “non-doing” (wuwei 無為) as the highest form, methods of Confucius as more practical for most people and then the Buddha’s “doing first and then non-doing” as more practical for most people.
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Qing dynasty (1644 – 1912 CE)Sources
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Quotes by Liu Yiming (20 quotes)
“Those whose main concern is food and clothing are untrustworthy in an impasse… complaining against heaven and blaming people.”
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Chapters:
8. Like Water
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“competitiveness and desire for power are the beginnings of beckoning disaster in business and social relations.”
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9. Know When to Stop
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“The wise support others with warmth, a warmth that requires genuine practice, true application barring insult and attack, bearing all difficulty, hardship, sickness, and calamity, just as the earth supports the mountains.”
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25. The Mother of All Things
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“the sprouts of living potential grow when the energies of yin and yang commune.”
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42. Children of the Way
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“Knowledge of the ingredients without knowledge of the process cannot accomplish the Tao.”
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56. One with the Dust
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“Getting out of danger requires that one believe it is dangerous – belief rules the mind… If there is truthfulness, then the mind develops.”
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80. A Golden Age
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“Great people, while being very wise, appear to be ignorant; while being very skillful, they appear inept… they cannot be influenced by circumstances… they are not concerned with externals… they find good fortune wherever they are.”
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41. Distilled Life
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“looking upon others and oneself as the same there will be no discordant action.”
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14. Finding and Following the Formless Form
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“the science of fulfilling nature and comprehending life is the great work of appropriating yin and yang, taking over evolution, reversing the process of life and death”
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“Though near to reality by nature, people become estranged from it by habit—descending lower and lower by daily repetition, they fall into a state of ignorant obstinacy and do not know how to stop.”
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“Nurturing firmness with flexibility, solidity with openness, from striving enter into nonstriving, from effort into spontaneity and practice introspection in action letting true yin and true yang naturally unite.”
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“Use unfortunate events to polish oneself, to find increase within reduction, to change a faulty beginning into a blameless end.”
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“Wine and sex distract from reality, the lure of wealth deranges our nature, emotions and desires arise in a tangle and we become lost in confusion.”
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“When the mind clearly understand true and false, it awaits the right time to act with strength and harmony, serene and without pressure.”
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“True yin and true yang naturally form a couple and from striving enter into nonstriving, from effort arrive at spontaneity completely realizing essence and arriving at the true meaning of life.”
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“If they hastily seek consummation and merely attain a moment's pleasure; not only will the woman not be happy, neither will the man and the relationship will surely fail in the long run.”
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“Practice contemplation in action by combining flexibility with firmness, solidity with openness, and returning the nonexistent to existence.”
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12. This Over That
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“When feeling returns to essence, punishment turns into merit. Reverting to the original, going back to the fundamental, there is a return to correctness.”
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“When the dirt is gone the mirror is clear, when the clouds disperse the moon appears; revealing the indestructible body of reality, they transcend yin and yang and Creation, and merge with the eternity of space.”
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“True emptiness is like the inner openness of a bell or a drum; when a bell is struck it rings, when a drum is beaten it resounds. It is because they have nothing inside that they are able to ring and resound. ineffable existence is like the sounding of a bell or a drum when struck... empty yet not empty, not empty yet empty, aware and efficient, lively and active, refining everything in the great furnace of Creation”
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Quotes about Liu Yiming (1 quotes)
“According to the Taoist master, Liu Yiming, the Way comes to the best people before virtue, whereas virtue is needed by middling and lesser people before they can understand the Way.”
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