**View that one cannot train people to change**
A frog in a well cannot discuss the ocean [therefore first we need to show the "frogs" the ocean. But can frogs ever come to understand ocean?] How do we do that in a modern situation, to those who suffer poverty of spirit, to those with the arrogance of power, etc?
A narrow-minded scholar cannot discuss the Tao. [Therefore don't engage in discussion with them. eg. The Entrepreneurial professor at the Hunter Centre. They only see from their narrow perspective. The expert's mind sees few options. The beginner's mind sees all.]
**Accept humility that we are insignificant in the big picture of the Universe**
We receive the life-breath from the universe, but we are just a little stone or tree set on a great hill compared to this world and beyond. How can we be so arrogant when we are so insignifcant?
**All liviing things, all living species are equally important, actually equally trivial, don't harm them**
When speaking of all life on Earth we are talking about thousands upon thousands of species and we are just one. In comparison to all the multitudinous forms of life, isn't humanity like just a single hair on a horse?
**View that we shouldn't expect consistency, no changes, even logical steps**
There is nothing constant in Fate; beginning and end have no regulation. So don't get excited by success or disheartened by failure. They just come and go - it's Fate playing out.
**Neither dismiss the small nor suppose the bigger to be better or more important**
Great knowledge sees that which is small as not insignificant, sees that which is large as not necessarily significant, knowing that you cannot define the capacity of things.
**Radical views about purpose, fame, success, goodness, badness, fitting it, being an outsider**
The great will not set out to harm others, nor make much of benevolence and charity; nor do they despise the greedy and mean; nor follow the crowd nor care that he is different; nor pay much heed either way to those who get ahead. The titles of the world are of no interest to them, nor are punishments that are meted out; They know that there is no distinction between right and wrong, and between great and little.
**Good and Bad are the same thing. Just accept and go with it. = How to live**
What is noble and what is mean are both just ceaseless changes. Don't cling to your own ideas. Consider all life as unified.
The life force is a headlong gallop speeding along, changing with every movement and altering every minute. As to what you should and should not do? Just go with this process of change.
To understand the Tao is to understand the principle. [ie. the universe just flows and there's nothing you can do to alter it, whether local, global, tiny, great. That's the principle.] If you understand the principle you know how to deal with things as they arise. You are able to discriminate between safe and dangerous situations.
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