The notorious Tao Te Ching

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The notorious Tao Te Ching

Post by Traveller13 » January 9th, 2006, 3:51 am

... or dao de jing
or whatever else you want to call it.

http://www.wam.umd.edu/~stwright/rel/ta ... Ching.html

It's great.


Excerpt:
56

Those who know do not talk.
Those who talk do not know.

Stop talking,
meditate in silence,
blunt your sharpness,
release your worries,
harmonize your inner light,
and become one with the dust.
Doing this is the called the dark and mysterious identity.

Those who have achieved the mysterious identity
can not be approached, and they can not be alienated.
They can not be benefited nor harmed.
They can not be made noble nor to suffer disgrace.
This makes them the most noble of all under the heavens.
[i]~"Open your eyes, and open your eyes again"[/i]

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Post by hester_prynne » January 9th, 2006, 4:23 pm

You get a big squeeze for this.....

H 8)

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Post by jimboloco » January 30th, 2006, 3:43 pm

I say "ditto to that, er the way to do is to be" and so do I get a big squuze too, eh, melady?

No merit whatsoever, sayz Bodhidharma
but I am doing Zen twice a month now

have you ever contemplated upon death, the transciennce

ah and yet, there is this beauitious moment

what is it?

la vida loca!
and yet wer can find the sacred in the ordinary

ah my patient last saturday sent him home with hospice
sarcoma of the ankle with mets to the left lung
3 to 6 months left

he opted out of more chemo
right lung is clear
he has a dilaudid pump he carries in a slingbag, man, a basal rate plus he can do his own ingections at the pop of a button
dilaudid and love
his wife and 2 gothic kids

sacred moments

another one years ago
he was a rocker with white witch
luisa smelled pot in his hospital room, called secutiry
guy comes up I say, look this guy had a puff
guy says we'll just tell him to take it outside
so we do rocker says the doc wikll be pissed
forgetabout it i says no problemo

later i saw him outside
a summer's evening late afternoon sun
he was looking at a tree from his wheelchair
he says, knowing you've got only a little time
makes this all too incredible

later his son was wheeling him on a guerney
adios amigo
last saturday i wheeled my dude out, after taking him over to the other staff, said goodbyes. wh had chatted about ordinary things.
the weather was perfect, 65 and partly sunny, amen.
they drove off to home.
to the dark and mysterious identities.
[color=darkcyan]i'm on a survival mission
yo ho ho an a bottle of rum om[/color]

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Post by Traveller13 » February 13th, 2006, 8:28 am

wow
:!:
[i]~"Open your eyes, and open your eyes again"[/i]

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Post by jimboloco » February 15th, 2006, 6:17 am

we are lucky when we have our health
vitality
and spirit
[color=darkcyan]i'm on a survival mission
yo ho ho an a bottle of rum om[/color]

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