...tao of marketing and other thoughts

10

Power

Can you embrace the Market with your thinking and talking,

Yet, never believe the illusion of your thoughts and words?

Can you focus all of the forces at your disposal,

Yet, never believe the illusion of control?

Can you lead and love those you guide,

Yet remain still and hidden?

Can you design a roadmap,

Yet never believe the illusion of logic?

The Sage’s strength is drawn from within,

The Sage’s power is a manifestation of strength.

The Sage’s strength is drawn from the Market,

The Sage is the steward who claims no authority.

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Where there is a bowl filled to the brim,

There is one who wishes for less.

Where there is an over-sharpened blade,

There you will find dullness quickly returns.

Boast of your reward;

And, you will awaken your most deadly foe.

Design for approval;

And, you will abandon the watercourse way.

The Sage allows the path before him to unfold;

Thus, he avoids rushing through the doors of defeat.

When the Sage has finished his work;

He withdraws so that which he has worked can continue.

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The most effective approach is said to be that of water;

It satisfies all, yet it does not try.

Water flows everywhere, even to the lowest places where men hate;

And, so the watercourse way provides an example.

Water flows harmoniously through all paths of non-resistance;

While it is never said that water has miscalculated.

No matter where the water has been;

The droplets are always welcomed back into the sea.

The Sage's loves the timeless,

which are sincerity, peace, and ability.

The Sage prefers that which cannot compete,
The competitive is temporary, the timeless is permanent.

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The Market is infinite, eternal, and never-ending.  Why?

It has neither desire nor destination.

The Market is neither inclusive nor exclusive.  Why?

It has neither intention nor ambition.

Without desire and without destination;

The Sage arrives ahead.

Without struggle nor impurity;

The Sage builds, connects, and nourishes.

The Sage, by letting go of the illusion of control,

Cannot struggle against that with which he is one.

The Sage fights for the Market, not for a share of the Market;

Death cannot arrive where birth is present.

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The Market is a fertile valley;

It is full of emptiness, and empty of fullness.

The Market is called the Great Mother;

Ever-giving, it does not hold on to what emerges from it;

 
All that springs forth is from the Market;

Be still and you will see that which is emerging.

 Do not be still;
And it shall emerge just the same.

The Sage cultivates a garden of ideas;

Drawing upon the eternal source that never fails.

The Sage plants seeds where heaven and earth meet;

His garden is nourished from above and below.

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Being without ideas, words and things;

The Market cannot take sides.

The Market cannot be said to be moral or immoral;

It does not recognize good or evil.
 

The Market is a fire that fuels and fans itself;

There are no cold waters in its boiling cauldron.

The Market is the hollow of a flute;

Already empty, it cannot be drained - active, it always produces.

Not confusing ideas, words and things;

The Sage knows there are no sides.

Raindrops are not said to fall in the wrong pattern;
The Sage is like the rain.