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Old 05-10-2018, 12:29 PM
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"It came even before God."

Translation by Brian Browne Walker (4)

"Something is there, hidden in the deep!
But I do not know whose child it is ---
It came even before God."
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Old 19-10-2018, 02:19 PM
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Favorite Quotes From the Tao Te Ching

"Meet the difficult while it is still easy;
Cross the universe one step at a time.
Because the sage doesn't try anything too big,
She's able to accomplish big things."
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Old 19-10-2018, 10:41 PM
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Those ancients who valued acting in tao
Did not come to be luminous
People attaining it came to be foolish.
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Old 20-10-2018, 11:31 AM
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"Out of silent subtle mystery emerge images.
These images coalesce into forms.
Within each form is contained the seed and essence of life.
Thus do all things emerge and expand out of darkness and emptiness."
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Old 28-11-2018, 09:33 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Still_Waters
"Out of silent subtle mystery emerge images.
These images coalesce into forms.
Within each form is contained the seed and essence of life.
Thus do all things emerge and expand out of darkness and emptiness."

Hello, I enjoyed the quote very much. I have been wondering about how did something come from nothing.

It just makes an impossible heavenly eternity possible for everyone, after this life or 2. 😅

I think.
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Old 28-11-2018, 09:35 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Still_Waters
"Out of silent subtle mystery emerge images.
These images coalesce into forms.
Within each form is contained the seed and essence of life.
Thus do all things emerge and expand out of darkness and emptiness."

Hello, I enjoyed the quote very much. I have been wondering about how did something come from nothing.

It just makes an impossible heavenly eternity possible for everyone, after this life or 2. 😅
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Old 28-11-2018, 09:53 PM
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What a funny double post. I'm so indecisive about the Mystery.
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Old 29-11-2018, 02:14 AM
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Another thought:

The whole reincarnation / dream ability would be pointless if there was always death in every incarnation. Yay eventually.
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Old 02-12-2018, 12:56 PM
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When using a translated text we must always be careful. Many scholars translate, but use words in their translation of what 'they think it means, VS performing a literal translation. To my knowledge the first scholar to translate the Tao te Ching was James Legge and he did it with a literal translation.

His translation appears in "The Texts of Taoism" part 1 first published in 1891.

From the 2nd section stanza 42. "The Tao produced One: One produced Two; Two produced Three; Three produced All things....

Thanks.

Brian
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Old 02-12-2018, 08:41 PM
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May not the space between heaven and earth be compared to a
bellows?
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