Weekly Tao Te Ching Verse - Week #22

This weekend started off with my Sober Yogi Hour followed by a Life Is Good discussion. Spent most of the rest of the weekend taking Gina Schatz's Anatomy class for Marni Task's YTT program. I skipped out early on Sunday to take my fellow YTT grad Kim Hackman's restorative yoga class at Confluence. I may or may not have snored.

Welcome to this week's Tao Te Ching verse. See here for what this is all about. 

Verse 22

If you want to become whole,

let yourself become partial.

If you want to become straight,

let yourself be crooked.

If you want to become full,

let yourself become empty.

If you want to be reborn,

let yourself die.

If you want to be given everything,

give everything up.

The Master, by residing in the Tao,

sets and example for all beings.

Because he doesn't display himself,

people can see his light.

Because he has nothing to prove.

people can trust his words.

Because he doesn't know who he is,

people recognize themselves in him.

Because he has no goal in mind,

everything he does succeeds.

When the ancient Masters said,

"If you want to be given everything,

give everything up,"

they weren't using empty phrases.

Only in being lived by the Tao

can you truly be yourself.