The Chinese used the symbol of tai chi, the undifferentiated reality - no separation, no left and right.
The sound man, immune as to a sacrifice of straw dogs, faces the passing human generations.
Taoism has no rules. It's a suggestion for preceiving life in its wholeness, without unnessary categorization, yet enjoying the beauty of categorization.
We create ying and yang, yes and no, plus and minus.
Gradually, you were given a description of the world, a way of seeing, which is largely sexual.
Lao Tsu always points a finger directly to us. He says we must begin with ourselves. It's impossible to bring order into the world unless we bring order into ourselves.
We can say the stars are moving because we have a relative context.
When there is time, there has to be suffering. Because in time there's desire and attachment and transition. This is the world of experience.
The limitations that we can see of the sexual description of reality are very apparent. Very few men attain enlightenment, even fewer women.
Learn not to be attached to other people, to certain types of experiences. Allow the flow of life to guide you wherever it is supposed to and accept with equanimity, with balance, with poise, whatever happens.
Lao Tsu says the way of life is ancient, timeless. It is existence which he calls the Tao - a mysterious source, beyond understanding, and all of us are a reflection, if not that source of life ourselves.
Taoism shows us how to deal with life and death by realizing everything here is transitory but its substance is eternal.
Our seeing is sexual initially.
The strongest factor in conditioning is sex, in the sense that the first thing that a person is really taught is whether they are male or female.
There is another kind of wisdom, the wisdom of following - the wisdom of not taking the lead with your ego.
Most beings enjoy existence so time comes into being.
The mind of the child is not formed. We are shown that this is life, this is the world.
In the West when you talk about yin and yang, people normally think of yin and yang as something that's linear. But in the east we tend to think of yin and yang as circles. They're two circles that actually can lie on top of each other, yet they remain separate.
The I Ching tells us that for every ending there is a new beginning. In other words, what appears like a transition isn't really a transition; it's a continuum of existence. If you close your eyes for a moment the room will appear to go away. But does it really? Open your eyes again and the room will still be there. That's all death is.
The pageant of life is divided into ying and yang. They're two circles. You can follow either circle and manage to develop enough speed to move beyond this world to other worlds, dimensional realities.
Taoism is not a religion, although perhaps it has been made into one by some people. Lao Tsu's way of life occurs in any spiritual philosophy.
Water uses itself to go beyond whatever it needs to go beyond.
It's either good, bad or somewhere in between. It's either ying, yang or it's a combination. You're either male, female or somewhere in between. You've got to be somewhere on the map.
In the West the wise are usually thought of as leaders. In the East, the wise are very often though of as followers.
There are two choices available in duality - one side or the other side. Everyting is formed from that.
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