[Community_garden] Philosophies of life

[Mike McGrath]

and yet if you don't know how and when to do nothing, you won't win...

                                                        ---McG

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Diana Liu" <diana1127 at sbcglobal.net>
To: <yarrow at sfo.com>; "'List Serve'" 
<community_garden at list.communitygarden.org>
Sent: Friday, December 28, 2007 3:42 PM
Subject: Re: [Community_garden] Philosophies of life


> Absolutely!  :-)  After glancing the the Book of Five Ring website and the 
> 9 rules, they are all pretty similar in concept.  The Book of Void 
> (nothingness) and 9th rule (Do not engage in useless activity) really 
> summarize well Lao Tze's (the author of Tao Te Ching) concept of 
> no-action, which is probably the most difficult to translate and to 
> understand.
>
> yarrow at sfo.com wrote:  This sounds a lot like the I Ching and the Tao Te 
> Ching.
>
> At 8:37 AM -0800 12/28/07, Diana Liu wrote:
>>Well, ok, since my ancestor wrote the Art of War,
>>(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Art_of_War) I feel that there
>>needs to be some explanations. :-) The book is not about fighting a
>>war, but how to strategize so that the result is with the least (or
>>minimal) danger and casualties (on both sides). The most famous
>>quote is probably:
>>
>> "So it is said that if you know your enemies and know yourself,
>>you will fight without danger in battles.
>>If you only know yourself, but not your opponent, you may win or may lose.
>>If you know neither yourself nor your enemy, you will always
>>endanger yourself."
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> Kindness in words creates confidence.
> Kindness in thinking creates profoundness.
> Kindness in giving creates love.
>                                   - Lao Tzu
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