Tuesday, March 13, 2007

Tao Te Ching


How to Prepare for the Great Integrity

Those who know don’t lecture,
Those who lecture don’t know.

To prepare the way for the Great Integrity-
Chose the rationalizing routes!
Shut the gloomy gates!
Blunt the sharp edges!
Release those who are tethered!
Soften the blinding lights!
Unite the world!

We cannot achieve the Great Integrity
Through intimacy or emotional detachment,
Nor through posturing or humility.

Since the Great Integrity
makes no judgments or demands
how will we know when it has arrived?
When it permeates us
With the universal “is-ness”.

Verse 56
Photo; Black Eye Galaxy

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