"What good is it to spend your life accumulating
material things?
It isn't in keeping with the Tao.
What benefit in conforming your behavior to
someone's conventions?
It violates your nature and dissipates your energy.
Why separate your spiritual life and your practical life?
To an integral being, there is no such distinction.
Live simply and virtuously, true to your nature,
drawing no line between what is spiritual and what
is not.
Ignore time.
Relinquish ideas and concepts.
Embrace the Oneness.
This is the Integral Way."
My life has always been a little impractical. I have never settled easily into one community, or place, or way of life. I have struggled to recognize this for what it truly is: a source of energy in an ever-deepening (and widening) capacity for change. Change frees me; it makes the struggle worthwhile even as it lessens the struggle bit by bit.
material things?
It isn't in keeping with the Tao.
What benefit in conforming your behavior to
someone's conventions?
It violates your nature and dissipates your energy.
Why separate your spiritual life and your practical life?
To an integral being, there is no such distinction.
Live simply and virtuously, true to your nature,
drawing no line between what is spiritual and what
is not.
Ignore time.
Relinquish ideas and concepts.
Embrace the Oneness.
This is the Integral Way."
My life has always been a little impractical. I have never settled easily into one community, or place, or way of life. I have struggled to recognize this for what it truly is: a source of energy in an ever-deepening (and widening) capacity for change. Change frees me; it makes the struggle worthwhile even as it lessens the struggle bit by bit.
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