A Disciplined Path to Solutions

The Tao Chapter 16 – My Interpretation

Worrying and overthinking are at odds with your peace of mind. Worrying and overthinking render you no productive results.

It is to a still and quiet mind the answers arrive because peace is there. It is in a still and quiet mind where the true Source of all things exist.

On your own—in your egoic state of ‘I alone must do this, I alone can get this done’—you awaken worry, obscurity and fear. But in embracing that there is a Source in which all answers are, you invoke the patience to wait for the answers, you are able to relieve the egoic state of its fretting, you can appreciate all events as a part of the larger experience of life, you can express yourself with peace in situations where others would tumble, and in all of this, there lies your strength.

Your disciplined connection to Source is what prepares you for all things, even unto your passing breath.

I am reminded of the closing statement in James Allen’s As a Man Thinketh.

Self-control is strength; right thought is mastery; calmness is power. Say unto your heart, ‘Peace be still’.

As I read Stephen Mitchell’s translation of the Tao Te Ching daily, I reflect and document my interpretation with the intention of living the Tao.