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The Tao is always at ease.
It overcomes without competing,
answers without speaking a word,
arrives without being summoned,
accomplishes without a plan.
Its net covers the whole universe.
And though its meshes are wide,
it doesn't let a thing slip through.
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Tao Te Ching, a New English Version, copyright ©️ 1988 by Stephen Mitchell, published by HarperCollins. All rights reserved.
There is a world that exists outside of our minds. Free from judgements, opinions, angles and interpretations. That world is always at ease.
Before humans existed (99.9978% of the history of the universe) planets collided, stars exploded, and galaxies were created in absolute privacy. And, it will keep happening looong after we’re gone. The most extravagantly beautiful scenes in the universe will never be admired and the most horrible destruction will remain clean of sadness.
The mystery of reality, the Tao, is right in front of us and yet it can never be witnessed. It eludes any combination of words that seek its description. It’s no surprise that the oldest poem in history chooses it as its subject. So instead of finding those words myself, here is the best and oldest attempt to do it.
I am the taste in water,
the light in the moon and sun…
the sound in the air…I am the ritual and the worship,
the medicine and the mantra,
the butter burnt in the fire,
and I am the flames that consume it…I am the heat of the sun,
I hold back the rain and release it;
I am death, and the deathless,
and all that is or is not.The Bhagavad Gita 7.8-10, 9.16-19, copyright ©️ 2000 by Stephen Mitchell, published by Harmony Books. All rights reserved.
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We are “atoms with curiousity. That looks at itself and wonders why it wonders."
Richard Feynman
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