The Tao, sutra 77

[rawmr]

This sutra needs no explanation, but it is such sweet, sane wisdom.

Is not the Tao like the drawn bow? The highest part is lowered, the lowest part is raised, overall depth is lengthened.

So Tao lowers the highest and raises the lowest (damn liberals! ;-) reality does seem to have a liberal bias). But the Tao of man increases the high and decreases

Comments

[baox]

does this have to be political, the low and the high? is that interpretation or translation, i think thats the hardest thing when it comes to works of dead cultures, the work has lost its meaning and become something new, something thats interpretational...i like the tao stuff though, a pocket trasnlation of the tao te ching was one of the first things i read dealing mysticism to contrast the reading i did online with the qaballah. a lot of it now seemed in hindsight very confused with the other online reading i did. its hard for me to remember some of this stuff.

[rawmr]

The Tao is not dead, nor the culture which produced it. It was then as it is now.