Tao Te Ching

The Promises of the Great Integrity

When we will live in complete integrity
We will be innocent like newborn babies.
Wasps and scorpions will not sting us.
Wild beasts will not maul us.
Birds of prey will not seize us.

Our bones will be pliable,
Our sinews soft.
Yet our grasp will be firm.
Even before we have known conjugality,
Our sexuality will be aroused
Because we are so virile.

We’ll sing all day long
Without becoming horse
Because we’ll be in fill harmony.
To be in harmony
Is to live in the Great Integrity,
The ultimate wisdom.

However, to interfere with nature
Is to seek control.
To seek control is to create dis-tress,
To create ids-stress produces exhaustion.
All these negations of the Great Integrity
Also negate life and its longevity.

Verse 55
Photo; Cluster of Diverse Galaxies