Avoiding Extremes

From the instant a winner is declared, a loser is created.
Low arises from High, work from play, difficult from easy, uncertainty from confidence,
not enough from too much...
Trapped by mutual arising all our thinking and doing is caught within one or other.
If there is need then there will be neglect.
Success will bring failure.
Ignorance will follow knowledge
Go softly and patiently, when there is Resistance there has been pushing...
and that is not the way....
Be moved in the direction of mystery.
Yield and learn until there is an easing between.
Do too much and there will be trouble, think too much and there will be confusion.
Let the natural order arise of itself.
When there is silent filling and emptying, everything arises and subsides in
it's harmonious way and the natural unfolding is not disturbed.
Though nothing is given, nothing is denied.
There is nurturing but not forcing, balance but not dividing,
Work is done but no credit taken.
When a task is finished, it is forgotten.
Not doing receives as much as doing.
Emptiness fills with thoughts