{"id":90622,"date":"2021-06-26T12:40:47","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T16:40:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=90622"},"modified":"2021-06-26T12:40:47","modified_gmt":"2021-06-26T16:40:47","slug":"no-attainment-whatsoever-hour-four-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/no-attainment-whatsoever-hour-four-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"NO ATTAINMENT WHATSOEVER – Hour Four (2021)"},"content":{"rendered":"

NO ATTAINMENT WHATSOEVER<\/span><\/p>\n

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the Tao of the sage is work without effort<\/span><\/p>\n

work not consisting of any effort<\/span><\/p>\n

effort never idolized in place of work<\/span><\/p>\n

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where what we are \/ meets what is<\/span><\/p>\n

where the bent tree\u2019s use is known to itself<\/span><\/p>\n

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do not be fooled by effort \/ effort will not make you wise<\/span><\/p>\n

the peaks unscaled by man have a use still undefined<\/span><\/p>\n

that the defining and words themselves would destroy its work<\/span><\/p>\n

the work of existing \/ the work of untouchable spires<\/span><\/p>\n

the work of a bent tree making shade and accessible nests<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

your everyday mind is the Tao<\/span><\/p>\n

there is no way through effort to accord with it<\/span><\/p>\n

when you try to accord, you deviate.<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

we, reaching the peak of our own spires,<\/span><\/p>\n

know passion in effortless sky-touched<\/span><\/p>\n

impenetrable mountains of our true power<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cthe general sense seems to be that one must destroy only that which is truly harmful to society or to oneself and that this cannot be discerned without the authentic, impartial love for the whole that is the mark of the wise man, of the master.\u201d – Tao Te Ching (Notes), Lao Tsu (J. Needleman)<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

NO ATTAINMENT WHATSOEVER   the Tao of the sage is work without effort work not consisting of any effort effort never idolized in place of work   where what we are \/ meets what is where the bent tree\u2019s use is known to itself  …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1491,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1491"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90622"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90642,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90622\/revisions\/90642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}