( What doesn't kill you doesn't necessarily make you stronger. Read more... )

Perhaps one day... we can .. possess the essential wonder of universal love. When that happens, we will no longer see people we despise - only people who represent certain aspects of the greater oneness that is also us.

Derek Lin - Commenting of Chapter 37 of the Tao Te Ching
Das Tao Te King von Derek Lin

( Here is Derek Lin's Transladaptation of and commentary on the 21st chapter of the Tao Te Ching (sometimes titled )

Even the finest teaching is not the Tao itself ( Read more... )

This rare and heavenly creature
alone without peer
look and it's not there
it comes and goes but not through doors
it fits inside a square-inch
it spreads in all directions
unless you acknowledge it
you'll meet but never know

-- from The Collected Songs of Cold Mountain, Translated by Red Pine

Poetry Chaikhana | Han-shan (Cold Mountain) - This ( Read more... )

"...Returning to the source is stillness, which is the way of nature ( Read more... )

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Mystery calls to mystery,
mystery within mystery,
mystery beyond mystery,
mystery is no mystery.
Mystery is a mystery.
I can be mystery without knowing it.
I can be G_d without knowing it.
Am i G_d without believing it??
Theb you, whoever you are, are God!.

( Wei wu-wei (doing non-doing) is a central principle in Taoist philosophy and i have come to accept its practical and spiritual worth. Doing not-knowing, or knowing not knowing is equally important but i have not been able to grasp it or do it. Read more... )

Apophatic theology ( Read more... )

Practice non-action.
Work without doing.
Taste the tasteless.
Magnify the small, increase the few.
Reward bitterness with care.

See simplicity in the complicated.......
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