Daodejing Poem 81

Singapore time 10.13 am 30th April 2008

Words of truth don't sound fine. Flowery words are not honest.

Good man does not argue. Debater is not a good man.

Knower of truth is not learned man. Learned men do not know the truth.

The Sage does not hoard things, with thought that what he has is more than enough than others, that he is able to influence a far greater number of people.

God's Way is gain that works no harm; the Sage's way is to act without competing for the result.

Without competing for the result is like not standing for election to be a president. People will appoint you president.
I am not happy with the above 81 images. Some verses are deleted, some words are changed, while some are missing. I copied from chinapage.com which is controlled by mainland China. Therefore they do not want people to read the actual texts, because of mystical verses. They are idiots.

The above comments are in Comment on Tao. TRUTH is always rejected by people as Luke chapter 17 mention the Son of Man doing his job like what Noah did in the past. People will also reject the expounder of the 4-line stanza in the Diamond Sutra. Son of Perdition is what people might want to entitle him as in Thessalonian 2 chapter2 . So democracy does not work in spiritual thing.

Those who are highly educated might not know the TRUTH. Only simple minded people can understand scriptures if they set upon them. Highly educated think highly of themselves and look down on others with little education who dare to voice their opinion. This is elitism.

People who do the work for spiritualism is going for no gain. This is what I am doing now. I preach for no gain in return. In actual fact, there is spiritual gain like spiritual power which many do not understand. Hui Neng got his spiritual power after about 20 years. Even his cultivation in the forest for 15 years did not give him much power. Once you start preaching, the power will grow tremendiously.