Between their births and their deaths -
Three out of ten are attached to life
Three out of ten are attached to death
Three out of ten are just idly passing through.
Only one knows how to die and stay dead - and still go on living.
That one has not any ambitions, has not any ideas, makes no plans.
From this mysterious place of not-knowing and non-doing ...
he gives birth to whatever is needed in the moment.
Because he is constantly filling his being with non-being ...
He can travel the wilds without worrying about tigers or wild buffalo,
or he can cross a battlefield without armor or weapon.
No tiger can claw him. No buffalo can gore him. No weapon can pierce him.
Why is this so?
Because he has already died, there isn't any more room for death in him.
Tao (Taoism)
( from an unknown source )
Three out of ten are attached to life
Three out of ten are attached to death
Three out of ten are just idly passing through.
Only one knows how to die and stay dead - and still go on living.
That one has not any ambitions, has not any ideas, makes no plans.
From this mysterious place of not-knowing and non-doing ...
he gives birth to whatever is needed in the moment.
Because he is constantly filling his being with non-being ...
He can travel the wilds without worrying about tigers or wild buffalo,
or he can cross a battlefield without armor or weapon.
No tiger can claw him. No buffalo can gore him. No weapon can pierce him.
Why is this so?
Because he has already died, there isn't any more room for death in him.
Tao (Taoism)
( from an unknown source )
Because the person has really learnt to remain NIRLEP and understands Gita. the Moksha while living in this world.
ReplyDeleteAmazing verse, we have heard these things in Ancient Indian Philosophy but fascinating to see from around the world...herr in China.
Delete@ Vishnu Panjwani
ReplyDeleteExactly.. it's called "Jeevan-Mukta"
We can see that all ancient philosophies of the Indian Sub-continent- Vedantic, Taoism and Buddhism were same. Only the language and their ways of explaining was different.
@ David Dhanoa
ReplyDeleteI don't know if they were same all around the world.
But the philosophies of the Indian Subcontinent were same.
At the time when Taoism was popular in that region - China was not one big country as it is now. Neither there was India as a country. They were all small kingdoms and trade was very common between them. People not only traveled for business purposes, they also to traveled to different areas to learn their philosophy and spread their own. So similarities appeared by adopting each other's concepts and ideologies.