Tao can be talked about, but not the Eternal Tao.
Names can be named, but not the Eternal Name.
As the origin of heaven-and-earth, it is nameless:
As "the Mother" of all things, it is nameable.
(Tr. John C. H. Wu)
The way that becomes a way is not the Immortal Way
the name that becomes a name is not the Immortal Name
the maiden of Heaven and Earth has no name
the mother of all things has a name
(Tr. Red Pine)
Everything that exists arises from and is arising from our Source. Even now. Though Lao Tzu says no name can name it, he calls the Source from which all is continually arising the Tao or Way. Jesus calls the Source the Father. He says that he and the Father are one. So are we all.
A difference between us and Jesus is that Jesus knew it. We generally don't. We think of ourselves as separate from the Source, the Father, the Tao, the Way. By considering (a word that means by the side of) ourselves as separate, we ARE separate. We have named ourselves, have named and are naming everything.
We put our egg of consciousness on the wall we create between ourselves and our Source. What a setup! No surprise that the egg fell and splattered into a zillion pieces. No forces in the named world can put it back together again.
Jesus says that he is the Way. He is the Way waying, the Tao taoing, the Source sourcing. He invites us to do the same, to open our consciousness as the Source sourcing. As we shall see, Lao Tzu issues a similar invitation. .
Names can be named, but not the Eternal Name.
As the origin of heaven-and-earth, it is nameless:
As "the Mother" of all things, it is nameable.
(Tr. John C. H. Wu)
The way that becomes a way is not the Immortal Way
the name that becomes a name is not the Immortal Name
the maiden of Heaven and Earth has no name
the mother of all things has a name
(Tr. Red Pine)
Everything that exists arises from and is arising from our Source. Even now. Though Lao Tzu says no name can name it, he calls the Source from which all is continually arising the Tao or Way. Jesus calls the Source the Father. He says that he and the Father are one. So are we all.
A difference between us and Jesus is that Jesus knew it. We generally don't. We think of ourselves as separate from the Source, the Father, the Tao, the Way. By considering (a word that means by the side of) ourselves as separate, we ARE separate. We have named ourselves, have named and are naming everything.
We put our egg of consciousness on the wall we create between ourselves and our Source. What a setup! No surprise that the egg fell and splattered into a zillion pieces. No forces in the named world can put it back together again.
Jesus says that he is the Way. He is the Way waying, the Tao taoing, the Source sourcing. He invites us to do the same, to open our consciousness as the Source sourcing. As we shall see, Lao Tzu issues a similar invitation. .
checking my hat at the door.
ReplyDeletei walk. walk through.
thx, geo.
I am enjoying your newest blog immensely, and have ordered the Translations of the Tao Te Ching. As usual, I will have to read this a few times so it can be worked down into my soul. ~ Carla
ReplyDeletePS: I heard this song when I read these words today: "I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together." (John Lennon)