Sunday, June 24, 2012

Tao Bible - Matthew 8:30-32

And there was a good way off from them a herd of many swine feeding. So the devils besought him, saying, If thou cast us out, suffer us to go away into the herd of swine. And he said unto them, Go. And when they were come out, they went into the herd of swine: and, behold, the whole herd of swine ran violently down a steep place into the sea, and perished in the waters.
~ King James version ~

If one is sick of sickness, then one is not sick.
The sage is not sick because he is sick of sickness.
Therefore he is not sick.
~ from Verse 71 of the Tao Te Ching ~
When we are aware that we are sick -- due to our reliance on our ego-based desires -- we can heal ourselves by letting those desires flee from us and "perish in the waters." It is when we can let go of desire that we are find that we are truly free.

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