Every cell in our body is continuously changing, we are as impermanent as everything else. Thoughts and emotions of being competent or that we’re hopeless rise and fall unceasingly. We are basing these thoughts and emotions on this fleeting moment.
What good is self-cultivation and wisdom if you keep it for yourself? Knowledge is meant to be used, if you can use it on behalf of others, you must do so. Don’t go out looking for good deeds to do, but if one comes your way do not refuse. If you meet someone who is suffering, you must help them.
Nothing in the realm of thoughts or ideologies is absolute and because of this, there is nothing more futile that relying on the mind. Quiet your thinking, dividing, making distinctions between one thing and another. Just stay in your center and accept all things as being part of you.
The meaning of excess is going beyond the middle way. Generally, insufficiency is better than excess. Be steadfast and upright to accomplish little affairs, then little affairs will become great. When meeting someone, exercise self-restraint, guard against going too far.
Quote: All things are born of being, being is born of non-being.