The Master is her own Physician

excerpts from Lao Tzu’s “Tao Te Ching”

photograph by A.B. Godfreed

If you close your mind in judgements
this is robbery and chaos
Its net covers the whole universe
the peace has been shattered

If powerful men and women
be a pattern for the world
the hard and the stiff will be broken
nothing left to hold on to
without expecting
without interfering
without possessing

The Tao is like a bellow
empties them of concepts, judgements
and desires

The more you know
the less you understand
each separate being in the universe
true perfection seems imperfect
easy to correct
easy to break
easy to scatter

What [s]he learns is to unlearn
allows things to happen
look inside your heart
accept yourself
thinking, keep it simple
profound and subtle
free from desire
the world would become paradise