Third Taoist Contemplation: Strong Wind Does Not Last All Morning

Posted on February 27, 2015 by hiramcrespo

Thus strong wind does not last all morning.
Sudden rain does not last all day.
Even Heaven and Earth cannot make it last

Tao Te Ching, Chapter 23

The third cure teaches that evils are easy to endure, and the above Taoist verse specifically teaches the consolation of impermanence. Acute pains are only temporary, and we eventually get used to chronic ones and can focus on other things.

This verse teaches that in all of nature we observe this: nature is too fluid for evils to be everlasting or persistent.

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Hiram Crespo is the author of 'Tending the Epicurean Garden' (Humanist Press, 2014), 'How to Live a Good Life' (Penguin Random House, 2020), and Epicurus of Samos – His Philosophy and Life: All the principal Classical texts Compiled and Introduced by Hiram Crespo (Ukemi Audiobooks, 2020). He's the founder of societyofepicurus.com, and has written for The Humanist, Eidolon, Occupy, The New Humanism, The Secular Web, Europa Laica, AteístasPR, and many other outlets.
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