This is #20 (Tao #47) (Final One) in a Series of Posts that share Synchronistically-Timely chapters from
Stephen Mitchell's Auspicious book
The Second Book of The Tao
Stephen Mitchell's Auspicious book
The Second Book of The Tao
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NO HUMAN SOUNDS
PREDAWN
SOFT OCEAN LULLS
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REMIND OF
“OLDER THAN GOD” ORIGIN
BEFORE/DURING/AFTER FOREVER
ALL IS AS IT IS
AND CANNOT BE OTHERWISE.
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3:24 AM - 7/10/15
∞
NO HUMAN SOUNDS
PREDAWN
SOFT OCEAN LULLS
<
REMIND OF
“OLDER THAN GOD” ORIGIN
BEFORE/DURING/AFTER FOREVER
ALL IS AS IT IS
AND CANNOT BE OTHERWISE.
ew
3:24 AM - 7/10/15
∞
Thinking is life's only variable.
Everything else was settled a long, long time ago
****
Seeing beyond the "end result,"
especially preparing for beyond the end result,
is as good as, if not better than,
simply seeing and preparing for the end result
Mike Dooley
www.tut.com
Everything else was settled a long, long time ago
****
Seeing beyond the "end result,"
especially preparing for beyond the end result,
is as good as, if not better than,
simply seeing and preparing for the end result
Mike Dooley
www.tut.com
All you need is to understand is that you are the source of reality,
that you give reality instead of getting it,
that you need no support and no confirmation.
Things are as they are because you accept them as they are.
Stop accepting them and they will dissolve.
–Nisargadatta Maharaj
http://peacefullpresence.blogspot.com/2015/07/all-you-need.html
that you give reality instead of getting it,
that you need no support and no confirmation.
Things are as they are because you accept them as they are.
Stop accepting them and they will dissolve.
–Nisargadatta Maharaj
http://peacefullpresence.blogspot.com/2015/07/all-you-need.html
#47
You can’t talk about the ocean
with a frog who lives in a well:
he is bounded by the space he inhabits.
You can’t talk about ice
with an insect who was born in June:
he is bounded by a single season.
You can’t talk about the Tao
with a person who thinks he knows something:
he is bounded by his own belief.
You can’t talk about the ocean
with a frog who lives in a well:
he is bounded by the space he inhabits.
You can’t talk about ice
with an insect who was born in June:
he is bounded by a single season.
You can’t talk about the Tao
with a person who thinks he knows something:
he is bounded by his own belief.
The Tao is vast and fathomless.
You can understand only by stepping
beyond the limits of yourself.
The Second Book of The Tao
Compiled and adapted
from the Chuang-tze and the Chung Yung,
with commentaries by
Stephen Mitchell
You can understand only by stepping
beyond the limits of yourself.
The Second Book of The Tao
Compiled and adapted
from the Chuang-tze and the Chung Yung,
with commentaries by
Stephen Mitchell
COMMENTARY
You can talk about the ocean with a frog who lives in a well,
but the conversation will be rather one-sided.
You can talk about the ocean with a frog who lives in a well,
but the conversation will be rather one-sided.
Eventually you realize that the only reason you’ve been talking
is that you love the sound of your own voice.
is that you love the sound of your own voice.
“Let me tell you about the ocean. It’s vast. It’s deep.”
“Huh?
“Huh?
“You can sail across it for days, for weeks and never come to the end.”
“Yea. Right.”
“Yea. Right.”
“It contains trillions of quadrillions of living creatures,
from the microscopic to the gargantuan.”
“I have a few lily pads here. Flies and mosquitoes.”
from the microscopic to the gargantuan.”
“I have a few lily pads here. Flies and mosquitoes.”
“The ocean is so deep that fish living far down generate their own light.”
“What do you mean by ‘fish’?”
The Second Book of The Tao
Compiled and adapted
from the
Chuang-tze and the Chung Yung,
with commentaries
by
Stephen Mitchell
“What do you mean by ‘fish’?”
The Second Book of The Tao
Compiled and adapted
from the
Chuang-tze and the Chung Yung,
with commentaries
by
Stephen Mitchell
You have traveled up ten thousand steps in search of the Dharma.
So many long days in the archives, copying, copying.
The gravity of the Tang and the profundity of the Sung
make heavy baggage.
So many long days in the archives, copying, copying.
The gravity of the Tang and the profundity of the Sung
make heavy baggage.
Here! I have picked you a bunch of wildflowers.
Their meaning is the same
but they are much easier to carry.
–Xu Yun
Their meaning is the same
but they are much easier to carry.
–Xu Yun
It’s dark because you are trying too hard.
Lightly child, lightly.
Learn to do everything lightly.
Yes, feel lightly
even though you’re feeling deeply.
Just lightly let things happen and
lightly cope with them.
I was so preposterously serious in those days,
such a humorless little prig.
Lightly, lightly – it’s the best advice ever given me.
When it comes to dying even.
Nothing ponderous, or portentous, or emphatic.
No rhetoric, no tremolos,
no self conscious persona
putting on its celebrated imitation of Christ or Little Nell.
And of course, no theology, no metaphysics.
Just the fact of dying and the fact of the clear light.
So throw away your baggage and go forward.
There are quicksands all about you,
sucking at your feet,
trying to suck you down into fear
and self-pity and despair.
That’s why you must walk so lightly.
Lightly my darling,
on tiptoes and no luggage,
not even a sponge bag,
completely unencumbered.
–Aldous Huxley
Lightly child, lightly.
Learn to do everything lightly.
Yes, feel lightly
even though you’re feeling deeply.
Just lightly let things happen and
lightly cope with them.
I was so preposterously serious in those days,
such a humorless little prig.
Lightly, lightly – it’s the best advice ever given me.
When it comes to dying even.
Nothing ponderous, or portentous, or emphatic.
No rhetoric, no tremolos,
no self conscious persona
putting on its celebrated imitation of Christ or Little Nell.
And of course, no theology, no metaphysics.
Just the fact of dying and the fact of the clear light.
So throw away your baggage and go forward.
There are quicksands all about you,
sucking at your feet,
trying to suck you down into fear
and self-pity and despair.
That’s why you must walk so lightly.
Lightly my darling,
on tiptoes and no luggage,
not even a sponge bag,
completely unencumbered.
–Aldous Huxley
July 9, 2015 Sunrise
April 25, 2015 Afternoon
#47
You can’t talk about the ocean
with a frog who lives in a well:
he is bounded by the space he inhabits.
You can’t talk about ice
with an insect who was born in June:
he is bounded by a single season.
You can’t talk about the Tao
with a person who thinks he knows something:
he is bounded by his own belief.
The Tao is vast and fathomless.
You can understand only by stepping
beyond the limits of yourself.
The Second Book of The Tao
Compiled and adapted
from the
Chuang-tze and the Chung Yung,
with commentaries
by
Stephen Mitchell
You can’t talk about the ocean
with a frog who lives in a well:
he is bounded by the space he inhabits.
You can’t talk about ice
with an insect who was born in June:
he is bounded by a single season.
You can’t talk about the Tao
with a person who thinks he knows something:
he is bounded by his own belief.
The Tao is vast and fathomless.
You can understand only by stepping
beyond the limits of yourself.
The Second Book of The Tao
Compiled and adapted
from the
Chuang-tze and the Chung Yung,
with commentaries
by
Stephen Mitchell
COMMENTARY
You can talk about the ocean with a frog who lives in a well,
but the conversation will be rather one-sided.
Eventually you realize that the only reason you’ve been talking
is that you love the sound of your own voice.
“Let me tell you about the ocean. It’s vast. It’s deep.”
“Huh?”
“You can sail across it for days, for weeks and never come to the end.”
“Yea. Right.”
“It contains trillions of quadrillions of living creatures,
from the microscopic to the gargantuan.”
“I have a few lily pads here. Flies and mosquitoes.”
“The ocean is so deep that fish living far down generate their own light.”
“What do you mean by ‘fish’?”
The Second Book of The Tao
Compiled and adapted
from the
Chuang-tze and the Chung Yung,
with commentaries
by
Stephen Mitchell
You can talk about the ocean with a frog who lives in a well,
but the conversation will be rather one-sided.
Eventually you realize that the only reason you’ve been talking
is that you love the sound of your own voice.
“Let me tell you about the ocean. It’s vast. It’s deep.”
“Huh?”
“You can sail across it for days, for weeks and never come to the end.”
“Yea. Right.”
“It contains trillions of quadrillions of living creatures,
from the microscopic to the gargantuan.”
“I have a few lily pads here. Flies and mosquitoes.”
“The ocean is so deep that fish living far down generate their own light.”
“What do you mean by ‘fish’?”
The Second Book of The Tao
Compiled and adapted
from the
Chuang-tze and the Chung Yung,
with commentaries
by
Stephen Mitchell
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