there is no separate I.
Without the sense of an I,
nothing can be seen as other.
There is some power that determines things,
but I don’t know what it is.
It has no form or substance,
acts without doing,
keeps the whole universe in order,
and seems to get along
perfectly well without me.
The Second Book of The Tao
Compiled and adapted from the
Chuang-tze and the Chung Yung,
with commentaries
by
Stephen Mitchell
#29 - p.58
are located at about the same point.
There’s not much difference between an inflated I and an inflated other.
Wisdom means no separation.
It’s easy to keep things at a distance; it’s hard to be naturally beyond them.
The more intimate you are with yourself,
the less anyone can be an others.
The power than determines things isn’t me,
but it isn’t anything else.
Realizing this is freedom.
It has nothing to do with the credos of religion,
those hundred-piece oom-pa-pa bands
meant fo drown out the sound of doubt.
What keeps the whole universe in order
speaks with the still small voice of silence.
Only the don’t-know mind can hear it.
Stephen Mitchell Commentary
The Second Book of The Tao
for #29
p. 59
BEYOND QUESTIONS/ANSWERS
IS
“OLDER THAN GOD”
CONDITION
NOTHING MORE TO SAY
JUST
BE
∞
ew
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