Constantly Guard against Your Senses. {13.}

Constantly Guard against Your Senses. {13.}
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“And as a boat on the water is swept away by a strong wind,
even one of the senses on which the mind focuses
can carry away a person’s intelligence.”

---- The Bhagavad Gita; 2:67.
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The Highest Exemplary Human State. {7.}

The Highest Exemplary Human State. {7.}
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“Those who know, do not talk.
Those who talk, do not know.
Keep your mouth shut.
Guard your senses.
Temper your sharpness.
Simplify your problems.
Mask your brightness.
Be at one with the dust of the earth.
This is primal union.
S{h}e who has achieved this state
is unconcerned with friends and enemies
with good and harm, with honor and disgrace;
this is the highest state of the human.

---- Lao-Tzu, the founder of Taoism, 600 B.C. - 531 B.C.
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