Sunday, March 04, 2007

Chapter Sixteen

16 Empty your mind of all thoughts.
Let your heart be at peace.
Watch the turmoil of beings,
but contemplate their return.

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  1. Anonymous9:44 AM

    yazowers! when death comes, you are ready. that would be a nice thing. no regrets.
    this whole verse is good advice to the parent, who needs to have a good sense of whats important...makes one more tolerant of lessons our children teach us...advice to new parents or anybody really, "you can deal with whatever life brings you"

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  2. I like this. It reminds me not to get attached to or involved in the dramas of the day.

    This lesson has been especially important to me when the dramas were tying me up in knots. But perhaps any involvement is distracting and counter productive?

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  3. from The Whole Heart of Tao by John Bright-Fey: "allow all things to manifest and their roots to assume definite shape and move about in activity against a backdrop of your reflective awareness"—from a WordLayers perspective: What else could these definite shapes be other than letters forming words? In WordLayers writing is reflective and repetitive, word after word to fill the page and then word on word in a layer above and then layer upon layer until all the words are used up and the writing moves into nothing. This is the location of art beyond words.
    from The Whole Heart of Tao by John Bright-Fey: “when these bustling shapes slow down and cease in their activity and return to the nothingness from whence they came you will attain a state of quietude that is an imitation of the Tao way of life” —from a WordLayers perspective: When you have written to emptiness let the thinking go. Imagine how you would feel without this thought of guilt or shame or resentment or anger or whatever trouble you have written about. Stay in that place. You have written pain out of language. Now let it go. Release it to art, to the quietude of Tao.

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