Thanks for the thumbs up and NLP definition, Pope W. Found it here:
Neuro-linguistic programming - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia I think I'll stick to meditation and kung fu, though!
To each their own. If your thing is NLP, yoga, hiking or family frisbee throwing, it's all good.
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It's easier to meditate when you don't speak or gossip all day, however since the no talking part is impossible if you have a job, the gossip part you can work on. | ” |
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It's not that you can't say anything. It's just that you can't put anyone down, including yourself. It's an exercise one of my students uses with people he volunteers with, and I found it very powerful. I found I usually wanted to put other people down when I was feeling insecure about something. Pretty cool stuff.
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I'm finally understanding my quote, it means that if you travel down a narrow path of knowledge, then you will run into the ocean of knowledge and understand ................everything what ever that might mean. | ” |
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Your quote is from Book 5 of the Tao Te Ching, 'The Conduct of Life'. My favorite Tao Te Ching translation is one my teacher in Taiwan turned me on to: 'The Wisdom of Laotse' ISBN 957-09-0881-5 It's in two volumes and has the Chinese beside the English. This version of the translation then pulls from Chinese scholars discussions on or works associated to each passage. In the case of this one, there's a story from Confucius, for example.
From 'The Wisdom of Laotse':
47. Pursuit of Knowledge
Without stepping outside one's doors,
One can know what is happening in the world,
Without looking out of one's windows,
One can see the Tao of Heaven.
The farther one pursues knowledge,
The less one knows.
Therefore the Sage knows without running about,
Understands without seeing,
Accomplishes without doing.
