The Great Way, Lao Tzu and the Buddhist Drice. Interpretation of the Great Sage

The Great Way

Simplicity, patience, compassion.
These three are your greatest treasures.
Simple in actions and thoughts, you return to the source of being.
Patient with both friends and enemies,
you accord with the way things are.
Compassionate toward yourself,
you reconcile all beings in the world

-Lao Tzu

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Interpretation and Explanation

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• Simplicity

is achieved when all that is excess has been removed as a process of refinement. Just like the refinement of metals, you must remove the impurities from your life weather in the form of choices that you make, actions that you take, or the people who make you less than you can be.

• Patience

is achieved when you are able to abide with difficult circumstances tolerating delay, disappointment, provocation, unpleasantness, and confusion without giving up, enduring before negativity in life and meditation.

• Compassion

is achieved when you are driven by the ideals of cheristhing other living beings to release them from their suffering regardless of their state of prosperity. Unlike self serving compassion, which naturally occures, universal compassion must be cultivated by training over a period of time.

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If you understand others you are smart.
If you understand yourself you are illuminated.
If you overcome others you are powerful.
If you overcome yourself you have strength.
If you know how to be satisfied you are rich.
If you can act with vigor, you have a will.
If you don't lose your objectives you can be long-lasting.
If you die without loss, you are eternal.

-Lao Tzu