Tao Te Ching
Chapter One
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.
(Written by Lao-tzu
From a translation by S. Mitchell)
On Jun 27, 2012, at 8:18 PM, 118 <[email protected]> wrote:
> Now wait a minute, did you tamper with this translation? Hmmm...
>
> Anyway, it sounds like Yin and Yang below.
>
> It is all about acceptance without resistance. Sounds kind of boring
> actually, but maybe that is her style.
>
> I suppose it all depends on how much she is suffering and how much she
> needs to escape.
>
> Quality is about good and bad, jack of all trades, master of none.
> Yet it does not do anything. SQ creates DQ can't live without each
> other or they would be called Q.
>
> Perhaps the MoQ needs a master to tame her.
>
>
> On 6/27/12, MarshaV <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Tao Te Ching
>>
>> Chapter Two
>>
>> When people see some things as beautiful,
>> other things become ugly.
>> When people see some things as good,
>> other things become bad.
>>
>> Being and non-being create each other.
>> Difficult and easy support each other.
>> Long and short define each other.
>> High and low depend on each other.
>> Before and after follow each other.
>>
>> Therefore the Master
>> acts without doing anything
>> and teaches without saying anything.
>> Things arise and she lets them come;
>> things disappear and she lets them go.
>> She has but doesn't possess,
>> acts but doesn't expect.
>> When her work is done, she forgets it.
>> That is why it lasts forever.
>>
>> (Written by Lao-tzu
>> From a translation by S. Mitchell)
>>
>>
>>
>> On Jun 27, 2012, at 4:51 PM, 118 <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Ah, yes.
>>>
>>> Now if darkness is within darkness then such darkness cannot be dark
>>> can it? Otherwise how could it be "within darkness". The point is to
>>> point away from darkness, not towards it.
>>>
>>> Think about it; use your imagination. Think of double negatives.
>>>
>>> Mark
>>>
>>> On 6/27/12, MarshaV <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi Joe,
>>>>
>>>> It is a beautiful translation, isn't it? I thought the references to
>>>> darkness made it particularly poignant.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Marsha
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Jun 27, 2012, at 12:12 PM, Joseph Maurer wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Beautiful:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
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