by 18 members and 65 followers "Look, and it can't be seen.
Listen, and it can't be heard.
Reach, and it can't be grasped.
Above, it isn't bright.
Below, it isn't dark.
Seamless, unnamable,
it returns to the realm of nothing.
Form that includes all forms,
image without an image,
subtle, beyond all conception.
Approach it and there is no beginning;
follow it and there is no end.
You can't know it, but you can be it,
at ease in your own life.
Just realize where you come from:
this is the essence of wisdom."
Ch. 14 from Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching
translated by Stephen Mitchell
"The Tao is called the Great Mother:
empty yet inexhaustible,
it gives birth to infinite worlds.
It is always present within you.
You can use it any way you want."
Ch. 6 from Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching
translated by Stephen Mitchell
"Express yourself completely,
then keep quiet.
Be like the forces of nature:
when it blows, there is only wind;
when it rains, there is only rain;
when the clouds pass, the sun shines through.
If you open yourself to the Tao,
you are at one with the Tao
and you can embody it completely.
If you open yourself to insight,
you are at one with insight
and you can use it completely.
If you open yourself to loss,
you are at one with loss
and you can accept it completely.
Open yourself to the Tao,
then trust your natural responses;
and everything will fall into place."
Ch. 23 from Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching
translated by Stephen Mitchell
the pleasing rhythm of your life entrains my heart gives it loft to sail above myself that it may die and I become alive
this is nostos gesture to Home greater than
this is Illich’s dying from Death unconditioned unconditional conditioned by Love
your eurythmia sails me over the seas of my limits and beyond the mountains of my intents a realization of the loft in my soulbones reaching up as Love reaches down
the two meet at the phoenix star a supernova from our supernova
She has no mirror but where flirt the leaves with the pond she comes in the cool of noon mixing the dark of her hair with the summer shade dipping into glass green water her toes and far above and all the pond sees encrypts within the bubbles of rainbow that only her clothes swelled in awe can read.