They are content to leave each other in peace. In the meantime, I intend to get back to my other blogs Lucid Exposition and Dreamlight Fugitive! See you there I hope. I'm also thinking of somehow translating this blog to YouTube. I have compiled the content of this blog into a small book, originally conceived as a gift for friends and family who might be interested but not especially 'blog people', and I intend to make it available on my website if I'm happy with it, and perhaps even Kindle too. I love the message of the Tao and believe it is as deeply relevant today as it was 2,500 years ago, if not more so. It's been great revisiting this and revising my commentary. Thank you for joining me in my Tao journey, I hope you've enjoyed it as much as I have. Surrendering to this inherent power within us, we come into alignment with the truth of what we are and become an instrument of harmony in this world. There’s nothing we need to do, but allow the Tao to flow through us, directing our words and actions. When we remove the obstructions created by our grasping minds, things naturally come into balance. Letting go, we can see the perfection inherent around and within us and life becomes an exquisite exercise in allowing. Flowers and trees bud and blossom at exactly the right time, just as day follows night and Spring follows Winter at exactly the right time. Any attempts to force invariably end in calamity. The Tao, operating through nature, has no need to force. The final pearl of wisdom in this timeless treasure of a text, is to refrain from forcing things. What does the Master give? He gives whatever the situation requires and whatever his heart prompts him to give. This isn’t a manufactured or calculated giving it is simply a natural propensity not to old back and contract, but to expand, reach outward and share. The Master’s nature is to give, in much the same way as the sun’s nature is to shine and water’s nature is to nourish. There is nothing to strive for and nothing to achieve. Why fixate on something (some thing) when you know your true essence to be nothing (no thing)? ![]() Being deeply rooted in the Tao, the Master has no need to fixate on the outward forms of life, the world of the 10,000 things. Much of the Tao Te Ching is comprised of Lao Tzu’s portrait of the Master: he or she who has fully realised the Tao and who effortlessly embodies it in daily life. ![]() As Lao Tzu stated in verse one, the moment you try to label it and express it with words, you’ve lost it, for the Tao that can be named is not the eternal Tao. It is the Tao the great expanse of emptiness, the unmanifest, the well-spring of pure potentiality from which everything emerges. Therefore there is no need to debate it and even less need to try and seek it through acquired knowledge. One of the insights in this final verse of the Tao Te Ching appears to echo the opening words of the first verse: namely that truth cannot be expressed or contained in words, however eloquent or beautiful they might be.
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