While the glorious myst rolls over the mountains Conscious minds are collaborating to settle change While the humbled owl releases its portentous hoos Love is seeping through the cracks to find its way home into the heart While the mystified infant finds the strength to take its first steps Multitudes of universes are pulled apart The time being is who we are Never truly far from a shooting star If all is time and time is not disconcerted Then we are only time breathing We may think that was then and this is now But in truth all is time, and time is tao Therefore, it is spoken that the butterfly which flaps its wings Is within the snarling army of the kings And not apart from the naturally originating beauty of springs Is within the unforseen wide expanse of space And not apart from any single place This logic precludes that you and i are swirling Hurling and curling Really whirling Our experiences twist, entwine, and interlace Tie a knot that cannot be undone For we are the midnight sun A remarkable love and one How deceptive the seeds of our perception is! Perpetuating a dualistic notion of reality Coiling the mind in complication, an entangled maze The greatest act of self-brutality! A perspective that lacks universality, totality How can we see clearly if all we see is finality? Where can harmony, affinity, tranquility lie in such a mess? Take the opportunity now to cleanse your door of apprehension Know the absolute to be like deep, profound space Appearances in truth are ineffable, no labels truly embrace Phenomena are entirely devoid of having truth to their name For they are transient, insubstantial, and deciduous Understand this. Move beyond the tendency of attachment For what is there in truth to be attached to? Watch the tides wash ashore your mind Where do thoughts come from, where do they stay, and where do they go to? Investigate this thought thoroughly For it is the validation to show ineffability A demonstration into the nature of reality The nature of your mind is inexhaustive openness blessed The ultimate place of rest Sit quietly alone and peer into yourself Ask the question "who am i?" gently Peel open the shell of you and investigate Whom is that who ascribes as 'i'? Ask the question "whom is that which experiences this?" Take minutes to come up with an answer Take hours if thats what it takes to realize who you are And finally collapse to realize the inexhaustibility of you A you cannot be found, a you is in truth ineffable Beyond being 'here', yet not very far from 'here' either Therefore meet liberation, it can never be apart
Blank has the capacity to hold all, yet Blank is no thing at all. Did "you" write this man? It's beautiful. I saw this so clearly in a conversation with a family member earlier today. The family member was so entrapped in his perceptions, his own value judgments, fears, doubts, anticipations... a whole mental matrix of perception. And all of this was restricting him from seeing the beauty that was right in front of him... and you could tell there was very little peace going on there. It seems when people lose sight of the BIG picture - that everything is already perfect. That this whole "life" experience is impermanent. Nothing lasts, including our lives. None of it inherently means anything except for in our thinking conceptual minds... then they stress the little things and lose the ability to truly relax and enjoy this impermanent transient (beautiful) experience. I wish that family member would awake to the true nature of reality... and how he is defining/creating all of those fears and perceptions and limitations and complications and stress. I wish he would stop getting so fearful and attached in his mental maze of distinction, judgement, etc etc. and be able to see things from a fresh perspective. Oh well, everything in its own time. He'll come around. I feel like if the teachings of wisdom teachings of all ages... Buddhism, Vedanta, Tao... all wisdom the wisdom teachings that point to the same reality - I feel like if these teachings were widely disseminated and understood, the world would be such a happier and more peaceful place. Because the people would be peaceful and less stress. To me the Tao te Ching is a perfect description of what aspects of life would look like if people possessed the knowledge and knowing/experience of their own true nature and the true nature of reality. Thanks for posting YEM.
if it was not for this nothingness of space no one would be able to write what has been written. -Tea Guru