Tao Te Ching, trans. Stephen Mitchell. New York: Harper Perennial, 1982, #45.
True perfection seems imperfect,
yet it is perfectly itself.
True fullness seems empty,
yet it is fully present.
True straightness seems crooked.
True wisdom seems foolish.
True art seems artless.
The Master allows things to happen.
She shapes events as they come.
She steps out of the way
and lets the Tao speak for itself.
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Our culture encourages us to keep adding and adding: more work, more things, more information, more talking, more doing, more struggling to understand. The Tao invites us to be in this moment and discover that there is already enough, right here, ready to speak to us, happening.
The Tao seems to say that everything is everying. All is contained within all. I pray to see creation more simply than dualistically, more inclusively than exclusionary.
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