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Tao Te Ching – Verse 1
The tao that can be told
is not the eternal Tao
The name that can be named
is not the eternal Name.
The unnamable is the eternally real.
Naming is the origin
of all particular things. Free from desire, you realize the mystery.
Caught in desire, you see only the manifestations.
Yet mystery and manifestations
arise from the same source.
This source is called darkness.
Darkness within darkness.
The gateway to all understanding.
(translation by Stephen Mitchell, 1995)
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So, what have I been doing… he said it all, obviously.
Before Christ/ bible, before Buddha (Buddhism), before me LOL
I have been saying the same thing using the terms like mind/ brain and heart,
connecting to heart…
Also referring to Shin Buddhism, absolute, other power as contrasted to self power.
Of course I mentioned, sila samadhi panna – whereas samadhi is the way to connect to wisdom and compassion etc.
Now I feel like I closed the circle…
out of the garden of Eden,
eating the fruit of knowledge
in the beginning is word (according to bible)
then back in the the core of our being – heart
Let’s read the first verse of Tao te Ching by LAo Tzu again, and realize that he said it all….
(Of course, reading by itself does not do any good….
but there’s a possibility…
We might just remember that this verse is just the first verse of Tao Te Ching.
which may say it all when we realize it down deep at the core of our being 🙂
If you are puzzled, possibly you may be at the right place to be.
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