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Contentment at home

  • Writer: Kathy Johnson
    Kathy Johnson
  • Apr 24, 2020
  • 1 min read

The following is from the Tao Te Ching, and it asks if we have internal contentment at this time of COVID-19, sheltering in place. Chapter 80:


If a country is governed wisely,

its inhabitants will be content.

They enjoy the labor of their hands

and don't waste time inventing

labor-saving machines.

Since they dearly love their homes,

they aren't interested in travel.

There may be a few wagons and boats,

but these don't go anywhere.

There may be an arsenal of weapons,

but nobody ever uses them.

People enjoy their food,

take pleasure in being with their families,

spend weekends working in their gardens,

delight in the doings of the neighborhood.

And even though the next country is so close

that people can hear

its roosters crowing

and its dogs barking,

they are content to die of old age

without ever having gone to see it.

 
 
 

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