7/14/2020 Lessons from the Tao
True leaders pursue continued growth and mastery every day and never stop.
What better way to learn to master ourselves than to learn from the masters of the past.
Our coaching group “Project Stay Home — The Ultimate Performance Forum” Lead by my coach and mentor James Arthur Ray and his wife Bear are, as a group, reading a book called the Tao Te Ching.
The Tao Te Ching is an old book of Chinese wisdom ( similar to proverbs but also a lot different) It was written by a Chinese Sage named Lao Tzu — Our group is reading a passage a day. We are 61 days in at the time of this post and I wanted to share my top 10 lessons with you. Heres how I did this. It is not an article so will not read that way. Instead I listed The lesson learned, followed by a passage or quote and then below that are my notes that I’ve been taking daily after meditating and considering the meaning of the passage for me. I believe your gonna like this… Enjoy. Here We Go - 10 Lessons from Lao Tzu and the Tao Te Ching LESSON 1: Look Within and you will find everything you need"Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is wisdom.
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Lesson 2: By letting go, you become free“By letting it all go, it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try, the world is beyond winning.”
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“To be content is to be happy with what you have, and to be happy with what you have is to be rich.” Lesson 3: Let Go Of your labels if you truly want to know yourself“He who defines himself can not know who he really is.”
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Lesson 4: Pay no attention to evil and it will crumble away“Give evil nothing to oppose and it will disappear all by itself.”
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Lesson 5: Kindness and compassion for other will always win in the end“Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.”
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Lesson 6: Be yourself without caring what others think“Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner.”
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Lesson 7: Wisdom and strength come from remaining humble“The wise man is one who knows what he does not know."
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Lesson 8: Change is inevitable, so embrace it, even if it seems uncomfortable“New beginnings are often disguised as painful endings.”
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Lesson 9: Learn to follow first if you ever wish to lead“ If you want to govern the people, you must place yourself below them. If you want to lead the people you must learn how to follow them.”
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Lesson 10: Always go with the flow “When nothing is done, nothing is left undone."
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