The tAo TE Ching for today by Iching

[IChing]

This is the number that came up for today #44
Of course it is only around 3800 years old.



#44

IF a country is governed with tolerance,
the people are comfortable and honest.

If the country is governed with repression,
the people are depressed and crafty.

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When the will to power is in charge,
the higher the ideals, the lower the results. Try to make people happy,
and you lay the groundwork for misery.
Try to make people moral,
and you lay the groundwork for vice.

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Thus the Master is content
to serve as an example
and not to impose her will
She is pointed, but doesn't pierce
Straightforward, but supple.
Radiant, but easy on the eyes.


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My son got a job with the International Red Cross in Europe this week
(Denmark)
computer, tech, language and political. (I am proud)


A picture of my son: (and his future wife?)

[sam sarrha]

1. around lines 72 to 78 is, "..why are the people so willing to die?"

"because the rulers make it so difficult to live..."

[BrklynLiberal]

3. Guess that is what it will take before the people in this country are

ready to actually march in the streets: Their lives will have to get a hell of a lot more miserable then they are now. Too many people still fat and complacent, even though they are complaining.

[IChing]

5. yes , very interesting analysis

But is change that is the only thing that is constant.

[BrklynLiberal]

2. You have every reason to be very proud of your very handsome son.

Very interestng about the I Ching.

Some mysteries never get old.

[IChing]

4. thanks alot,

He was born in Texas at home with 4 midwives.
At the birth,I pulled him out and placed him in a large container of water,
still with the cord attached,
A relative recent russian therapy.
( it is suppose to ease the trauma of the childbirth, scientifically )

He's a mellow but strong man

[BrklynLiberal]

7. A wonderful way to start life, surrounded by love.

Sounds like a twist on the LeBoyer method.

http://www.pregnancy-info.net/leboyer.html

At the time it was first introduced some women actually delivered underwater...in a pool of warm water.

[stanwyck]

6. Thanks! And

congratulations to your good-looking son. You must be a wonderful parent to have raised such an accomplished young man. (who also happens to have his arm around a very pretty friend).

[MrScorpio]

8. Woww! That's great

He's going to love the cheese

I would kill to get a job in Copenhagen, lack of Danish skills be DAMNED.

[IChing]

9. He speaks Danish and has a Danish passport

and a US passport
He lives over there, I can't afford this education system

They are lucky they have Dual citizenship, which means
I can leave and be legal anywhere
over there
If I need to, I'll wait until 2006

Are you feeling better, thanks for
the support, I am proud.