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TAO’D LIFE IS ALL
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4:36 AM-11/24/17
"Oh like a bird on the wire,
Like a drunk in a midnight choir
I have tried in my way to be free."
Leonard Cohen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmPUu-rMpWA
http://americansongwriter.com/2013/08/behind-the-song-leonard-cohen-bird-on-a-wire/
see Read More at end for lyrics
When there is no past, when there is no future,
only then is there peace.
Future means aspirations,
achievement, goal, ambition, desire.
You cannot be here now,
you are always rushing for something,
somewhere else.
then there is peace.
because life knows only one time,
and that is the present.
The past is death;
the future is just a projection of the dead past.
You think in terms of the past, that's what you know,
and you project it - of course in a better way.
all the pains have been dropped
and only the pleasures have been chosen,
but it is the past.
To be in the present is to be alive, optimum --
and that is renewal.
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Empty your mind of all thoughts.
Let your heart be at peace.
Watch the turmoil of beings,
but contemplate their return.
returns to the common source.
Returning to the source is serenity.
you stumble in confusion and sorrow.
When you realize where you come from,
you naturally become tolerant,
disinterested, amused,
kindhearted as a grandmother,
dignified as a king.
you can deal with whatever life brings you,
and when death comes, you are ready.
Translation by Stephen Mitchell.
http://dailytao.org/
for Bird on a Wire Lyrics
Leonard Cohen – Bird On The Wire Lyrics
Like a bird on the wire,
Like a drunk in a midnight choir
I have tried in my way to be free.
Like a worm on a hook,
Like a knight from some old fashioned book
I have saved all my ribbons for thee.
If I, if I have been unkind,
I hope that you can just let it go by.
If I, if I have been untrue
I hope you know it was never to you.
Like a baby, stillborn,
Like a beast with his horn
I have torn everyone who reached out for me.
But I swear by this song
And by all that I have done wrong
I will make it all up to thee.
I saw a beggar leaning on his wooden crutch,
He said to me, "You must not ask for so much."
And a pretty woman leaning in her darkened door,
She cried to me, "Hey, why not ask for more?"
Oh like a bird on the wire,
Like a drunk in a midnight choir
I have tried in my way to be free.
Leonard Cohen
1st recorded in Nashville TN 1968
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