Originally posted by lemon lime
It's hardly psychobabble. You can't do anything about the past because the past is done. Can't do anything with the future because it isn't here yet. So even if everything in the present seems to be falling apart, at least you are there to do something about it... fix it, deal with it, run away from it... but you can't do anything with something th ...[text shortened]... uote about past present future is not psychobabble, it's just something that happens to be true.
You know me better than that. 😕 I was half tongue in cheek. Lao Tzu reminds me a bit of Sun Tzu. They both state the obvious. But it it's so obvious, then why is it so profound?
Common sense, they both preach common sense(IMO) and for most people, we tend to overthink things. "What is going to happen tomorrow?" That idea brings forth a multitude of options and events in my mind. Some may or may not happen, only time, choices made, and happenchance events unfolding will tell.
The psychobabble comment was more directed at my rambling not Lao Tzu or Sun Tzu.
If John Madden were an ancient Chinaman, he'd have been Fat Tzu.