Passage #59: 11 August 2010
Ride Te Ching
- We join spokes together in a wheel,
- but it is the center hole
- that makes the bicycle move.
- We shape clay into a pot,
- but it is the emptiness inside
- that holds whatever we want.
- We hammer wood for a house,
- but it is the inner space
- that makes it livable.
- We work with being,
- but non-being is what we use.
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- Rushing into action, you fail.
- Trying to grasp things, you lose them.
- Forcing a project to completion,
- you ruin what was almost ripe.
- Therefore the Rider takes action
- by letting things take their course.
- She remains as calm
- at the end as at the beginning.
- She has nothing,
- thus has nothing to lose.
- What she desires is non-desire;
- what she learns is to unlearn.
- She cares about nothing but the Ride.
- Thus she can care for all things.
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- By climbing what is large
- we remember we are small.
- We stay close
- but we see our land as new.
- Since before time and space were,
- the Ride has been.
- It is beyond is and is not.
- How do we know this is true?
- We look inside ourselves and see.
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