The Dunce
Be the tao in the Tao, not the Tao in the tao.
The hidden hides nothing but itself in itself.
The created is alive only to itself in itself.
The hidden and the created create each other.
The Tao is never incompletely complete.
Thanking itself always, without thanks.
The Tao actions through non-action,
and is cold when it is hot, when it is not.
Judge not the Tao, to be judged not by it.
Learn the Tao, and learn nothing new.
The Tao is small, as small as you.
But contains great truths, in small amounts.
Greater than dying to living.
From the Tao, live to survive.
Go forth with nothing, as something.
To find everything in nothing, as nothing.
Tao is to Tao, as friend is to friend.
Lend me an ear, to find in Tao a tear.
Not from itself, only from you.
A tear in the Tao, is a tear, in truth, in you.
When is the Tao the Tao?
When is the Tao not the Tao?
The Tao is the Tao when you are the Tao.
The Tao is the Tao when you are not the Tao.
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Is the Tao always the Tao, or can something make the Tao the Tao?
Can we not be a part of the Tao, or is it always a part of us, whether we know it, or not?
Can the Tao be turned off, or on?
Thank you very much for the clarification. I guess that must be very interesting.
I like his prose, or poetry, because it pits continually one idea against another, and so gets you thinking on both sides of an idea.
For example:
“To be great is to go on,
To go on is to be far,
To be far is to return.” — Tao Te Ching
“Big things of the world
can only be achieved by
attending to their small beginnings.”— Tao Te Ching
I need to find some book. I always like to read something new.
If you google, “Tao Te Ching”, it is available for free on the Internet.
one example is:
http://taoteching.org.uk/
Thank you so much for you help. I will be happy to take a look.
Most creative and interesting.
Thanks. This site does allow us to be creative. I like that about it.
Thanks, for commenting on my effort here.
Yes, those are the types of posts that I like to read too.
An interesting song. I like the term and I think about what the question means in the end.
Taoism is a type of religious practice or Philosophy from China, whose founder was Lao Tzu.
I like reading his book the, “Tao Te Ching.”
Thanks for your appreciation.
You answered me poetically, with a great question too, with just a hint of humour thrown into the question as well.
I will answer my own question in terms of love.
Can love, (or God’s love) be turned on, or off?
Love is ever noisy in whatever heart it lives, but the silence of the tao speaks for love, which is voiceless of itself, but gives voice to all who feel it.
We can turn love off or on within ourselves, (or so we might think) but it is never really off, but always on, even as God is always on also.
Only our mind can think otherwise, but it is always mistaken when it thinks that there is an off to the on of love.
i love the expression and flow within the poem.
but you ended with the question that is haunting.
Can the Tao be turned off or on?
in the silence of the forest, in the quiet of the mind can we toggle tao?
Thanks for your appreciation.
You answered me poetically, with a great question too, with just a hint of humour thrown into the question as well.
I will answer my own question in terms of love.
Can love, (or God’s love) be turned on, or off?
Love is ever noisy in whatever heart it lives, but the silence of the tao speaks for love, which is voiceless of itself, but gives voice to all who feel it.
We can turn love off or on within ourselves, (or so we might think) but it is never really off, but always on, even as God is always on also.
Only our mind can think otherwise, but it is always mistaken when it thinks that there is an off to the on of love.
I replied in the wrong spot before, and once replied, we cannot change things here.
i saw and responded – do not worry it happens!