63

Practice not practicing,

Achieve modest tasks,

Sample discounted half-and-half,

Treasure the tiniest joint,

Keep the mind limber,

Mark it zero.

Too many strands in ol’ Duder’s head make his thinking uptight.

Deal with a plan while it is still simple,

When the plan gets too complex, everything can go wrong.

Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov!

By not worrying about shit, life goes on.

Being privy to the new shit, new shit comes to light.

Giving a shit about the rules, nothing is forfeited.

By giving a shit about the poor world, man

The Dude does not fuck this up.

Across that line he does not.

Tao Te Ching: 63

Act without force,

Work without will,

Taste without prejudice,

Regard the tiny as great,

And a dearth as an abundance.

Reward an enemy with kindness,

Deal with the doable before it grows difficult,

And attend to the minor before it becomes major.

The hardest problems were once thought of as simple,

And the biggest issues started off small.

One who takes responsibilities too lightly

Will never be trusted,

And one who regards everything as trivial

Will soon find it all insurmountable.

It is precisely because the sage doesn’t think of himself highly

That he achieves greatness:

Because he regards everything as important,

He is never caught off guard,

And nothing is ever difficult for him to do.