...When a cat falls out of a tree...
...it lets go of itself...
...The cat becomes completely relaxed...
...and lands lightly on the ground...
...But if a cat were about to fall out of a tree...
...and suddenly make up its mind that it didn’t want to fall...
...it would become tense and rigid...
...and would be just a bag of broken bones upon landing...
...In the same way...
...it is the philosophy of the Tao that we are all falling off a tree...
...at every moment of our lives...
...As a matter of fact...
...the moment we were born we were kicked off a precipice and we are falling...
...and there is nothing that can stop it...
...So instead of living in a state of chronic tension...
...and clinging to all sorts of things that are actually falling with us...
...because the whole world is impermanent...
...be like a cat...
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