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Living as Spirit in Utter Spontaneity.

The Mountains Disappearing Into Spirit on East Peak at Huashan Mountain 华山东峰上，群山隐入灵境 Epilogue  82 – Living as Spirit in Utter Spontaneity. Opening Movement — The Three Anchors Simplicity, detachment, and virtue — the three anchors that through the ages have separated the sage from the rest of the world. Emulating the Tao, he recalls what came first, what remains empty, and what is forever still. Setting the Stage  Preparing to return to the utter spontaneity found only in complete harmony with the universe, the Tao Te Ching now completed, the sage pauses in the courtyard of the Confucius Temple. The…

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Above it all Lao Tzu was the teacher.

Taoism and Lao Tzu Lao Tzu has seen too many worlds built on striving, cleverness, and forgetting. Verse 80 is his vision of what humanity looks like when we remember who we are as spirit. This is not a call to return to the past, but an invitation to rise into the next level of enfoldment — the unfolding of our highest selves. When people live from spirit, life becomes simple not from lack, but from clarity. Tools exist, but ambition does not rule them. Boats and weapons gather dust because the spirit has no need for them. Villages are close…

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