Talk based on Verse 22 of Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching about transforming the apparent imperfection of life into perfection through acceptance.

0:00 Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching Verse 22: 'The Wise Man Embraces Everything'
2:48 Wise People Say Yes to Everything, They Accept Everything; The Level of Wisdom Can Be Measured By One's Acceptance
4:32 We Walk the Path of Acceptance and Surrender Until We Get to Silence; Acceptance Turns Into Contentment
6:48 Allowing Things to Integrate Themselves Back Into Primordial Unity; To Stop a Ripple in a Pond, Does It Help If We Jump Into the Pond?
8:27 We Have to Learn to Leave Thoughts Alone, Not Create Countercurrents of Thought; Whatever Has Happened In Your Life, It's Done--No Need to Think About It Anymore, Let It Be
10:44 Creation, Preservation and Destruction; Preservation: Trying to Keep Something Going Longer Than Its Natural Duration or Trying to Cut Things Shorter Than Their Natural Duration
13:31 There is a Way of Living Where Things Just Come and Go, and We Don't Interfere; Accepting What Comes to You and What's Taken Away From You
14:48 You Don't Worry About How Things Are Going to Develop; Anxiety is Never In the Present Moment; The Way That We Approach Situations Determines How We're Going to Experience Them
16:16 Whatever Comes, We Have to Welcome It--Pleasant or Unpleasant; How Do We Separate Ourself From Our Destiny?; You Are Just Energy, Consciousness, Space--and Life is the Dance of Those Things
18:39 Welcoming Our Guests for the Right Amount of Time; Welcoming Destined Things For As Long As They're Going to Be Here; Each Relationship Has Its Programmed Length of Time, Our Job is To Accept
21:21 The Art of Living: Trying Your Best but Accepting Whatever Happens; Bhagavad Gita: The Incompatibility of Fighting in a War and Knowing Yourself As the Supreme Consciousness
23:58 Our Essence is Always the Supreme Consciousness; We Get Lost in Thinking That Every Moment, Every Experience is the Be-All End-All
25:54 This is the Path of Liberation--We're Not an Individual in a Situation, We Are Consciousness, the Energy Enlivening All of It
27:27 If Everything That Happens or Doesn't Happen is Really Important to You, Then You'll Forever Be a Prisoner of Things That Come and Go; For Someone Who is Consciousness, Nothing is a Big Deal, Nothing Really Matters
29:21 Masters Have An Act, A Role That They Play in the Drama of Life on the World Stage; Connecting to the Subtle Feeling That the Master Is Not Really There, That They Are Beyond All of This
32:48 Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching: 'By Remaining Hidden, He Shines Forth Like a Spotless Gem'; What is Hiddenness?; A Master Will Not Show Off; The Fragrance of Emptiness, The Bliss-Fragrance of Masters; Learning to Feel Into the Depths of Life
35:48 We Don't Have to Show Off or Boast, We Can Remain Humble and Selfless
37:04 Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching: 'By Not Contending, He Avoids the Contention of Fools'; Mohanji Anecdote; If We Believe Something, What Does It Matter What Anyone Else Believes?
39:42 Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching: 'By Not Boasting, He is Naturally Recognised by the Wise / By Treating the Creation As His Own Body, the World Dotes On Him Like a Newborn Child'; If We Take Care of the Divine Mother, She Will Take Care of Us
42:26 Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching: 'By Not Desiring a Thing, Everything He Needs is Given to Him'; In Each Moment, We Always Have Everything That We Need; Getting Into the Attitude That Life is Perfect
44:18 Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching: 'The Wise Have Declared That To Be Whole, You Must First Embrace Brokenness'; What is the Brokenness in Our Lives?; the Japanese Repair Broken Tea Cups with Gold Lacquer, Thus Embracing Imperfection
46:07 The Real Alchemy of Existence: Can You Create Bliss From a Situation That's Apparently Miserable?; Masters Use Suffering and Pain In Their Own Favour
48:07 Imperfection and Insecurity; The Root of Insecurity is Not Knowing Who You Are--That You Are Perfect and Complete As Consciousness; The King Offered Obeisance to Shri Swami Samarth; The Root Power and Security is All Within

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