2. "Center Everywhere - Circumference Nowhere" Sunrise/Afternoon June 21, 2015

This is #2 in a Series of Posts that will eventually include all the main aspects
  of
Stephen Mitchell's Auspicious book
The Second Book of The Tao
so Perfectly Timely !
See Read More at end for further information.

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How to BE more SILENT?
 

SIMPLY STOP ALL MOVEMENT
(EVEN IF CONTINUING TO BE MOVED)

INSTANTLY
BE BREATH
THAT IS
BEYOND THE MINDING MIND

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5:07 AM - 6/21/15
 

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The above Scribed predawn and BEFORE we read Tao #2 this morning.

#2
Before sorrow, anger,
longing, or fear have arisen,
you are in the center.

When these emotions appear
and you know how to see through them,
you are in harmony.

That center is the root of the universe;
that harmony is the Tao,
which reaches out to all things.

Once you find the center
and achieve harmony,
heaven and earth take their proper places
and all things are fully nourished.

Stephen Mitchell
The Second Book of The Tao
#2

COMMENTARY
for #2 above
by
Stephen Mitchell

This chapter is about saving the world. 
You save the world when you save yourself. 
(There’s no one else you can save.) 
Returning to the center is thus an act of infinite kindness.

There’s nothing wrong with sorrow, anger, longing, or fear;
a painful emotion is just a signal
that you’ve left the center.

When you are at peace,
 everything is at peace.

What seemed like cacophony
becomes the music of the spheres:
  a suite for unaccompanied mind.

Living in harmony with the way things are,
the mind finds its center everywhere,
its circumference nowhere. 
The part becomes the whole;
what is becomes what should be.

Heaven takes its proper, its only place: 
on earth.

The Second Book of The Tao
Compiled and adapted from the
Chuang-tze and the Chung Yung,
with commentaries
by
Stephen Mitchell

See Read More below  for additional Wording/Photos

#2
The Second Book of The Tao

Before sorrow, anger,
longing, or fear have arisen,
you are in the center.

When these emotions appear
and you know how to see through them,
you are in harmony.

That center is the root of the universe;
that harmony is the Tao,
which reaches out to all things.

Once you find the center
and achieve harmony,
heaven and earth take their proper places
and all things are fully nourished.


The Second Book of The Tao
Compiled and adapted from the
Chuang-tze and the Chung Yung,
with commentaries
by
Stephen Mitchell

COMMENTARY
for #2 above
by
Stephen Mitchell

This chapter is about saving the world. 
You save the world when you save yourself. 
(There’s no one else you can save.) 
Returning to the center is thus an act of infinite kindness.

There’s nothing wrong with sorrow, anger, longing, or fear;
a painful emotion is just a signal
that you’ve left the center. 

When you are at peace,
 everything is at peace. 

What seemed like cacophony
becomes the music of the spheres:
  a suite for unaccompanied mind.

Living in harmony with the way things are,
the mind finds its center everywhere,
its circumference nowhere. 
The part becomes the whole;
what is becomes what should be.

Heaven takes its proper, its only place: 
on earth.