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Politics : Should God be replaced? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: cosmicforce who wrote (554)8/26/2000 7:59:36 PM
From: Solon  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 28931
 
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The TAO

THE MYSTERY

WHEN YOU LOOK FOR IT, YOU CANNOT SEE IT.
IT HAS NO SHAPE.

WHEN YOU LISTEN FOR IT, YOU CANNOT HEAR IT.
IT MAKES NO SOUND.

WHEN YOU GRASP AT IT, YOU STILL CANNOT TOUCH IT,
BECAUSE IT IS NON-BEING.

COMBINED, THESE THREE ARE INTANGIBLE.
AND ARE MERGED INTO ONE.
THE TOP DOES NOT ASTOUND,
AND THE BOTTOM DOES NOT OBSCURE.
IT HAS NO NAME.
IT IS AGELESS AND IN CEASELESS MOTION,
AND THEREFORE RETURNS TO THE VOID.

IT IS THE FORM OF THE FORMLESS.
IT IS THE IMAGE OF THE IMAGELESS.
IT IS NOT DISTINCT, AND IT WILL NEVER BE DEFINED.

WHEN ONE APPROACHES IT,
HE WILL NEVER SEE ITS FACE.
WHEN ONE FOLLOWS BEHIND IT,
HE WILL NEVER FIND ITS BACK.
SO HOLD THE TAO TIGHTLY, AND BE MASTER OF THE MOMENT.
KNOW THE VERY ESSENCE OF TIME AS THE FIBER OF TAO.


tuffley.hispeed.com

"The Tao can be looked at but not seen, listened to but not heard, reached for but not obtained; it's name is formless, soundless and intangible. Therefore it is beyond analysis, it can only be known by the intuitive mind."

Sounds like maybe you've been there! :)