Chapter 47. Looking far
Human can know the world without leaving his own house.
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Through his own windows he may see the high Tao.
The farther he goes, the less chance he stands of finding.
That is why a wise one knows and recognizes without traveling, names beings without seeing and completes everything without action.¹
- Mr. Ervast: “Deep experience, because the life of the spirit is not in doing but being.”
Own translation from 1925 Finnish translation by Pekka Ervast (ISBN 951-8995-01-X) with kind permission of Ruusu-Ristin Kirjallisuusseura ry.