Coming upon a lively stream in a secluded mountain meadow, Chen Jen and Tzu-yu found a cave and there spent the summer months in seclusion.
“How the world sings the songs of Tao!” exclaimed Tzu-yu.
“Without plan or purpose Life springs forth in riot all about this stream! This tiny cat’s-eye blooms, fades and decays without a murmur; always complete, full and perfect!
And behold these jackdaws; flocking together according to their kind, each one knowing the same song! Truly, this is Heaven’s Tao! This is it and nothing more!”
“All that IS,” Chen Jen added, “whether great or small, living thing or mineral, in the land of being or non-being, is an expression of the Tao. In the tiniest grain of sand are lessons too great for the combined minds of all men to absorb. Indeed, through this broken leaf my heart is even now lifted beyond trackless eternity!
‘The Tao is the Great Unchanging,
the all-embracing IS!’
All things are as they are and all shall be what all shall be.
What freedom beyond all reckoning to dwell in the lap of IS!”
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“How the world sings the songs of Tao!” exclaimed Tzu-yu.
“Without plan or purpose Life springs forth in riot all about this stream! This tiny cat’s-eye blooms, fades and decays without a murmur; always complete, full and perfect!
And behold these jackdaws; flocking together according to their kind, each one knowing the same song! Truly, this is Heaven’s Tao! This is it and nothing more!”
“All that IS,” Chen Jen added, “whether great or small, living thing or mineral, in the land of being or non-being, is an expression of the Tao. In the tiniest grain of sand are lessons too great for the combined minds of all men to absorb. Indeed, through this broken leaf my heart is even now lifted beyond trackless eternity!
‘The Tao is the Great Unchanging,
the all-embracing IS!’
All things are as they are and all shall be what all shall be.
What freedom beyond all reckoning to dwell in the lap of IS!”
This post is part of a series. To view the index, go here.
I could imagine sitting along side and joining in!
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