To be what I term a 'quality' human being one has to be transparently real and have the courage to be what he is.
Pessimism blunts the tools you need to succeed.
The height of cultivation always runs to simplicity.
In life, what more can you ask for than to be real?
Taoist philosophy is essentially monistic. Matter and energy, Yang and Yin, heaven and earth, are conceived of as essentially one or as two coexistent poles of one indivisible whole.
Meditation means to be free from all phenomena and calmness means to be internally unperturbed. There will be calmness when one is free from external objects and is not perturbed.