{"id":1396,"date":"2024-03-04T21:50:55","date_gmt":"2024-03-04T21:50:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qigongessencial.pt\/observing-appearance\/"},"modified":"2024-08-13T12:24:31","modified_gmt":"2024-08-13T12:24:31","slug":"observing-appearance","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/qigongessencial.pt\/en\/lao-tse\/observing-appearance\/","title":{"rendered":"Observing appearance"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 has-pattern-background has-mask-background nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-background-position:center bottom;--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-padding-top:8%;--awb-padding-bottom:8%;--awb-background-color:#faf9f6;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last fusion-animated\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-margin-bottom:60px;\" data-animationType=\"fadeInDown\" data-animationDuration=\"1.0\" data-animationOffset=\"top-into-view\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">Observing appearance<\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We can all see beauty as beautiful,<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">just because we know ugly.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We can all recognize good as good,<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">only because we know the bad.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Everything and nothing create each other.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The easy and the difficult complement each other.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Long and short are defined.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">High and low are balanced.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The before and after follow one another.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Thus, the wise man acts without acting and teaches without words.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There is no end to the evolution of myriad beings,<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">creating life without possessing it,<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">acting without expecting a return,<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">carrying out their mission without proclaiming victory;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">because the wise do not seek merit,<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and so the merit remains in him forever.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3480,"featured_media":0,"parent":1533,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"100-width.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1396","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qigongessencial.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qigongessencial.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qigongessencial.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qigongessencial.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3480"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qigongessencial.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qigongessencial.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1396\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qigongessencial.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qigongessencial.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}