Use This One Line From the Tao Te Ching to Guide Your Life
Yes, it’s that powerful.
I’ll open with a request: Please read the Tao!
It’ll take you two hours max, it’s an easy read, and it is, pound for pound, the wisest book ever written. This translation by Stephen Mitchell is the most widely read in the West.
It was written in China by Lao Tzu roughly 2,500 years ago, around the same time that Siddhartha Gautama (the Buddha) and Confucius lived and taught.
Before we get to the main act, here a couple of my Tao faves:
“Practice not-doing and everything will fall into place.”
And…
“Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.”
Let yourself bathe in these when you have a few spare minutes.
The focus of today’s piece is a single sentence from the Tao that cuts straight to the heart of the spiritual path. From Chapter 10:
“Can you step back from your own mind and thus understand all things?”
That’s it. Step back from the mind and good things will flow.
There are three key points here.