Thursday, June 1, 2017

There and Not There.


“ Thirty spokes share the wheel’s hub;  It is the center hole that makes it useful.
Shape clay into a vessel; It is the space within that makes it useful.
Cut doors and windows for a room; It is the holes which make it useful.
Therefore profit comes from what is there; Usefulness comes from what is NOT there.”
Tao te Ching, Lao Tsu, circa 600 BC

Eliminate that which you are NOT; this enables you to be that which you always ARE.
Space is the source and the substance of all creation, allowing all that exists to be.
Silence is the womb and the body of all sound; it contains ,and is interwoven with, thunder and birdsong and music.
Being is the foundation of life : first you must BE, before you can know or do.
The background is more important than the foreground.
Turn your attention away from the contents: focus on the container that is being-space-silence.
It gives birth to everything, contains everything, yet remains pristine, perfect, untouched and unattached to anything.
Stainless and unchanging as the sky, this is the foundation of all , the Tao, the mother of “the ten thousand things”.
Stillness. Emptiness. Silence. Existence.
You cannot  know it, you can only BE it.
Timeless presence.
Infinite and eternal perfection.
Conscious, blissful, peace.


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