Into a soul absolutely free
From thoughts and emotion,
Even the tiger finds no room
To insert its fierce claws.
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Victory is for the one,
Even before the combat,
Who has no thought of himself,
Abiding in the Thoughtless state of True Origin.
The Taoist poet of a by-gone time stresses more and more on the achivement of the state of thoughtless purity. Clarity of sight and action, that is not rendered impure nor distracted by any way by the waves of thought, in the tranquil lake of Mind, seems to be the loftiest of spiritual ideals. Something akin to the "Nirvikalpam" state of Vedanta, or the beginning of Yoga Sutras of Seer P