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In order to go into Taoism at all, we must begin by being in the frame of mind in which it can be understood. You cannot force yourself into this frame of mind, anymore than you can smooth disturbed water with your hand. But let's say that our starting point is that we forget what we know, or think we know, and that we suspend judgment about practically everything, returning to what we were when we were babies when we had not yet learned the names or the language. And in this state, although we have extremely sensitive bodies and very alive senses, we have no means of making an intellectual or verbal c
Death and Cycles-Taoism by GooglegwnSoviet, journal
Death and Cycles-Taoism
We give death metaphors. We cloak it in meaning and make up stories about what will happen to us, but we don't really know. When a person dies, we cannot see beyond the corpse. We speculate on reincarnation or talk in terms of eternity. But death is opaque to us, a mystery. In its realm, time ceases to have meaning. All laws of physics become irrelevant. Death is the opposite of time.
What dies? Is anything actually destroyed? Certainly not the body, which falls into its constituent parts of water and chemicals. That is mere transformation, not destruction. What of the mind? Does it cease to function, or does it make a transition to a
If I said a word of it,
It would be false.
If I didn't say a word of it,
It would be lost.
If you wish to see it,
Become the bird in the sky.
Be the tree on the mountain.
Be the water in the river.
Only then can you understand it.
Drop everything.
Water knows how to benefit all things without striving with them.
Contentment means
Avoiding conflict.
Benefits of minimal involvement include
Never getting caught.
Knowing yourself makes you
In control.
It is good to
Keep your words.
Biting your tongue can be
Helpful.
Keep on ebbing but know that
Everything will get done somehow.
If one still has private ends to serve, one will never be able to win the world.
Conflicting messages.
You must do these things to improve yourself
You must be selfless.
Do these statements clash?
Lao Tzu you are just like the television.
However, your advice i
An American Taoism by ExistenceWeSummonYou, literature
Literature
An American Taoism
The god that can be divined is not the eternal divinity.
The power that can be attained is not the eternal power.
Powerless, it is the first is this series of species.
All powerful, it is the future mother of the world.
To see, empty yourself of yourself.
To do, fill yourself with yourself.
Emptying and filling,
witnessing and creating: They are the same.
A oneness split by the inadequacy of language.
Their unity is the existence of existence,
the limit of an infinite regress of origins,
the limit of an infinite progress of births
- our gateway into understanding.