compassion, collaboration & cooperation iN transistion
No leaps, no high kicks, no running.
The feet always firmly on the ground ... movements
intrinsically beautiful and at the same time charged
with symbolic meaning. Thought taking shape in
ritual and stylised gesture. The body transformed
into a hieroglyph, a succession of hieroglyphs, of
attitudes modulating from significance to significance,
like a poem or a piece of music. Movements of the
muscles representing movements of the consciousness ...
It's meditation in action; the metaphysics of the
Mahayana expressed not in words, but through
symbolic movements and gestures.
[IT] IS the 2nd century BC Ink-on-silk manuscript of the Tao Te Ching
to the left of the picture above, which best exemplifies for me these
words of wisdom from Ursula Le Guin RIP in A Small Dark Light ...
“It is the profound modesty of the language that
offers what so many people for so many centuries
have found in this book: a pure apprehension of
the mystery of which we are part.”
TAO begot ONE - Silence within, laughter without and forever a smile
on your face - reflecting from without & transmitting from within,
the everlasting light - which emanates from the splitting of kindling
wood and the lifting of a stone - & which fills the cup of life once
The TAO that can be told is not the eternal TAO
The name that can be named is not the eternal name.
The nameless is the beginning of heaven & earth.
The named is the mother of 10,000 things.
Ever desireless, one can see the mystery.
Ever desiring, one can see the manifestations.
These two spring from the same source but differ in name ...
this appears as darkness. Darkness within darkness.
The gate to ALL mystery.
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