Change Your Thoughts - Change Your Life: Living the Wisdom of the Tao by Wayne Dyer

Author:Wayne Dyer [Dyer, Wayne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Hay House
Published: 2007-07-31T07:00:00+00:00

encounter during a 30-minute period.

See yourself in those you might

otherwise have judged, including the

very old, very young, obese, disabled, or

indigent. As you look at them, remind

yourself, I share the same originating

spirit with every one of these people.

This will help you feel whole by shifting

from your ego to the virtue of the Tao.

40th Verse

Returning is the motion of the Tao.

Yielding is the way of the Tao.

The 10,000 things are born of being.

Being is born of nonbeing.

Living by

Returning and

Yielding

I see one of the greatest teachings of

the Tao Te Ching here in the shortest of

its 81 passages. If you can master the

wisdom in these four lines, you’ll be as

happy, content, and centered in the Tao

as any sage.

With the first word, returning, you’re

being nudged toward an understanding of

the basic principle of your existence.

Without needing to leave your body,

you’re asked to die while alive. You

accomplish this by realizing that you’re

one of the 10,000 things that has

appeared in the world of form. What

Lao-tzu is expressing here in the 40th

verse is what contemporary quantum

physics has confirmed many centuries

later: Particles do not come from

particles at the tiniest subatomic level.

Instead, when the infinitesimally small

specks are collided in a particle

accelerator, there’s nothing remaining

but waves of “particle-less” energy. In

order for you, a much bigger speck, to

form, you must have come from an

originating spirit.

Now Lao-tzu may have known nothing

of quantum physics in the 6th century

b.c., but he was teaching an essential

truth even then: It’s spirit that gives life.

So to truly live out your destiny as a

piece of the originating Tao, you must

shed your ego and return to spirit—or

you can wait until your body dies and

make your return trip at that time.

Six centuries after Lao-tzu dictated the

81 verses of the Tao Te Ching, the man

who wrote a huge percentage of the New

Testament also spoke of whence we

come. Formerly called Saul of Tarsus,

he became known as Saint Paul, an

apostle of Jesus Christ. In his letter to

the people of Ephesus, he wrote: “You

were created to be like God, and so you

must please him and be truly holy” (Eph.

4:24). This is an invitation for us all to

return to what we came from, which is

loving, kind, and not exclusive in any

way.

How is this accomplished, according

to Saint Paul and Lao-tzu, who

emphasizes this point in many of the

verses of the Tao Te Ching? You do so

by yielding your ego, surrendering, and

being humble. To that end, in his letter to

the people of Corinth, Saint Paul quotes

Jesus directly: “My grace is sufficient

for you, for my power is made perfect in

weakness.” Paul then goes on to say

himself, “Therefore I will boast all the

more gladly about my weaknesses, so

that Christ’s power may rest on me. That

is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in

weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in

persecutions, in difficulties. For when I

am weak, then I am strong” (2 Cor.

12:9–10). Indeed, yielding is the way of

the Tao, as well as the key to an uplifted

existence, according to virtually all

spiritual texts that have survived over

the centuries.

When you truly change the way you

think about all of life, the world begins

to look very different. You begin

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