Two quotes

[SolarWarden]

Help my mind to get off this ocd cycle. I got these two quotes circling around my mind. As if these two quotes are contradictory.

Is it a case of bad translation, are they even talking about the same thing? Is it like eastern vs. western spirituality.

Thanks in advance.

 

"For to every one who has will more be given, and he will have abundance; but from him who has not, even what he has will be taken away."

— Matthew 25:29, 

"As it acts in the world, the Tao is like the bending of a bow. The top is bent downward; the bottom is bent up. It adjusts excess and deficiency so that there is perfect balance. It takes from what is too much and gives to what isn't enough.

Those who try to control, who use force to protect their power, go against the direction of the Tao. They take from those who don't have enough and give to those who have far too much.

The Master can keep giving because there is no end to her wealth. She acts without expectation, succeeds without taking credit, and doesn't think that she is better than anyone else."

- Tao Te Ching (Stephen Mitchell version)

 

 

Edited April 19, 2021 by SolarWarden

[Nahm]

2 hours ago, SolarWarden said:

 

"For to every one who has will more be given, and he will have abundance; but from him who has not, even what he has will be taken away."

— Matthew 25:29, 

In the vein of bringing the ocd to a rest...this one points to the ‘inner world’ of experience. 

Focusing upon what one has, one is creating having. Focusing upon what one does not have, one is creating not having. You are the creator, and creation is an apparent continuum either way, and there is no experiential difference between having but focusing on not having, and not having and focusing on not having. 

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"As it acts in the world, the Tao is like the bending of a bow. The top is bent downward; the bottom is bent up. It adjusts excess and deficiency so that there is perfect balance. It takes from what is too much and gives to what isn't enough.

And this one points to the ‘outer world’ experience...

“As it acts in the world” could be said “the appearance of the Tao”. Holding an ice cube for example, one doesn’t necessarily need photomultiplier tubes & an optical microscope to experience the true nature of unconditionality in / as photons. 

[SolarWarden]

13 hours ago, Nahm said:

this one points to the ‘inner world’ of experience. 

And this one points to the ‘outer world’ experience.

Case solved