Know the male,
yet keep to the female;
receive the world in your arms.
If you receive the world,
the Tao will never leave you
and you will be like a little child.
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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
Underline the feminine qualities of soft and gentle. Within you there is the full creative force of the womb of the world where you learn from the giants of humility—it is a gift to know of creativity. There is a certain preciousness in creative simplicity. Like un-carved wood, individual potential is in the eye of the Creator. Allow yourself to become whatever you want to / need to be. A vessel for Tao. Step out, even a step back is foreword. Reversal, recurrence and forward. Creativity is the Way.
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