The Master keeps her mind
always at one with the Tao;
that is what gives her her radiance.
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Layer upon layer
She finds deep in her own experience the central truths of the art of living, which are paradoxical only on the surface: that the more truly solitary we are, the more compassionate we can be; the more we let go of what we love, the more present our love becomes; the clearer our insight into what is beyond good and evil, the more we can embody the good. Until finally she is able to say, in all humility, "I am the Tao, the Truth, the Life." S. Mitchell
Translation of the Tao Te Ching by Stephen Mitchell, Harper & Row, 1988. In keeping with copyright law only the chapter under study is fulltext. All other chapters show only the first stanza.
Study Group Contac: Lissa Lord:lissalord@gmail.com
Tao in WordLayers
Layer upon layer
from the Brian Browne Walker translation of chapter 21, "Out of the silent subtle mystery emerge images . . . " From within me because of what is beyond me and outside of me come the words I write and continue to write as if mirrors are set to catch the phenomenon of word over word http://WordLayers.com From the "deep obscure" of my creativity grows the consciousness of one on one, meaning all that is. I write "into darkness" and it shows in light but I cannot read my own writing until it is word on word and layer on layer where word looks into the mirror to see the all of one. Visible as image with only word of illusion to be read. I read the image that is everything of before and all that is past. "These images coalesce into forms. Within each form is contained the seed and essence of life." I write words and that is not enough until image forms from too many words spoken at once which must come back to one--> one Word-->Tao.
ReplyDeleteWords chase the tao, yet it eludes them. Words circle the tao yet it is beyond the words. Yet "tao" is a word but not the Tao.
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