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What am I doing?
How much is needed to learn that I am on the wrong track?
This question came in my mind this morning when I was asking myself “ What am I doing on this website?”
Then I remembered the first line from the “Tao Te King” from “Lao Tse”
“The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao.”
Then I thought, well… who am I to talk about this.
Better to be silent.
Wim Hein
Who are you to talk about this? You are the wind beneath my wings.
You are they great Void shouting Goodness and Mercy.
You come to earth for a second and bless it with your Presence.
The Tao that can be told is the music playing on the silence.
The first line is not the whole story. The pregnancy develops into the baby, into the
wisdom, into the calm.
Don't talk, Shout!!! Give rise to the glorious, to the sublime, to the
Just as all sounds emerge from a background of silence and then subside into that which gave them shape and form, all of creation emerges from a background of formless possibilities before returning to that source.
The silence which birthed the sound and the emptiness which birthed the form were never harmed by the noise nor damaged by the assault of forms.
Of course the expressions of Tao can never be the Tao itself. The description of meals on a menu can never of themselves fill the belly. But the descriptions themselves can serve as excellent pointers to that which can.
Do what needs to be done and say what need to be said. Just don't fool yourself into believing you were other than silence in expression. Even the Tao Te Ching was expressed, thou its authorship may be in serious doubt.
Only silence remains.
Hy Wim,
a statement of WeiWuWei:
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I cannot say it.
I cannot know it.
I cannot be it.
Because i am it.
And all it is i am.
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So, your "better to be silent" is another ones "better to say it".
Because every personal effort to say or not to say is too much effort to control something that is uncontrollable.
BUT - you are that which is uncontrollable about itself.
Greetings
Andi