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The Taoist Trader: The Transformed Trader

October 18, 2011 by Terry Chitwood Leave a Comment

The Taoist Trader: Act without Action
The Taoist Trader: You Get What You Need

Tao Te Ching (Chapter 42)

Tao gives life to the one

The one gives life to the two

The two give life to the three

The three give life to ten thousand things

 

All beings support yin and embrace yang

and the interplay of these two forces

fills the universe

Yet only at the still-point.

between the breathing in and the breathing out,

can one capture these two in perfect harmony

 

People suffer at the thought of being

without parents, without food, or without worth

Yet this is the very way that

kings and lords once described themselves

Who knows what fate may bring—

one day your loss may be your fortune

one day your fortune may be your loss

The age-old lesson that others teach, I also teach—

“As you plant, so you reap”

“As you live so you die”

Know this to be the foundation of my teachings

(By Lao Tsu, translated by Jonathan Star)

The Still-Point

“The one gives life to the two” is the essence of the formation of a creation myth. The unity is split into a duality: night and day; the masculine and the feminine; good and evil; etc. Duality implies friction, conflict. In trading, markets move up and down. Traders win or lose. Certainly, this process could cycle into infinity. However, “The two give life to the three.” If an individual holds the tension between good and evil in his or her psyche, over time a higher order synthesis (unity, oneness) is created. The individual is transformed. The still-point is created. “Yet only at the still-point between the breathing in and the breathing out, can one capture these two in perfect harmony.”

The Transformed Trader

If a trader holds the tension between winning and losing in his or her psyche, over time a higher order synthesis is created. The trader is transformed. “One day your loss may be your fortune.” By not succumbing to despair from trading losses or narcissistic elation from wins, the transformed trader learns that trading has a lot more to it than making money. Being transformed, a trader can apply his or her hard-won worldview to many worthwhile aspects of life. Like poetry.

mountain mist rises

melting into the sun

–Terry

The Taoist Trader: Act without Action
The Taoist Trader: You Get What You Need

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