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Sage Lord Guan imparts: When a person walks through this life, what truly matters is living with loyalty, filial love, integrity, justice, and other enduring virtues. Only by living this way can a person carry out their duty as a human being without shame and stand with steadfast honor before others and beneath Heaven.

Cultivating in each moment opens the way to the Tao.  If you can see through the world and gently let it go, no trouble will linger in your heart.  If you see the world as beautiful, it reveals its beauty.  If you see it as filled with worry and pain, that too becomes real.

Here is a Taoist teaching that offers us a way to free ourselves from deluded thinking: Do not stir up deluded thoughts. When these thoughts come up, it’s natural to get caught in them—but holding on to them can lead to worry and struggle. Because we experience the world through our senses—what we see, hear, smell, taste, touch, and think—it’s easy to become wrapped up in the outside world and start believing things that aren’t truly real. We tend to mistake the false for