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52
The world has a maiden
she becomes the world's mother
Who knows the mother understands the child
who understands the child
keeps the mother safe
and lives without trouble
Who blocks the opening
who closes the gate
lives without toil
Who unblocks the opening
who meddles in affairs
lives without hope
Who sees the small has vision
who protects the weak has strength
Who uses his light
who trusts his vision
lives beyond death
This is the Hidden Immortal
— RED PINE
52
The origin and mother of everything in the world is Tao.
Know the mother and you can know the children.
Having known the children,
return to their source and hold on to her.
Abiding by the mother,
you are free from danger,
even when your body dies.
Don't live for your senses.
Close your mouth, close all the body's openings,
and reside in the original unity.
In this way you can pass your
life in peace and contentment.
Open your mouth,
increase your activities,
start making distinctions between things,
and you'll toil forever without hope.
See the subtle and be illuminated.
Abide in gentleness and be strong.
Use your light, and return to insight.
Don't expose yourself to trouble.
This is following Tao.
— BRIAN BROWNE WALKER
52
In the beginning was the Tao.
All things issue from it;
all things return to it.
To find the origin,
trace back the manifestations.
When you recognize the children
and find the mother,
you will be free of sorrow.
If you close your mind in judgements
and traffic with desires,
your heart will be troubled.
If you keep your mind from judging
and aren't led by the senses,
your heart will find peace.
Seeing into darkness is clarity.
Knowing how to yield is strength.
Use your own light
and return to the source of light.
This is called practicing eternity.
— STEPHEN MITCHELL
Sit still and disengage normal activities.
Draw energy from the earth,
Admit power from the heavens.
Fertilize the seed within;
Let it sprout into a flower of pure light.
And let brightness open the top of your head:
Divine light will come pouring in.
Your mind is empty,
Light seeps into your whole body.
Sitting cross-legged, with hands clasped,
As if trying to embrace the brilliant flood,
Your skin turns transparent.
How can a bag of skin hold divine magnitude?
Your last vestiges burn away in a torrent of infinity.
Only after indeterminate time do you return.
Flesh, blood, bone.
Were you gone? Or were you never here in the first place?
Where is the torrent?
It is not gone;
You've only closed to it once more.
Draw energy from the earth,
Admit power from the heavens.
Fertilize the seed within;
Let it sprout into a flower of pure light.
And let brightness open the top of your head:
Divine light will come pouring in.
Your mind is empty,
Light seeps into your whole body.
Sitting cross-legged, with hands clasped,
As if trying to embrace the brilliant flood,
Your skin turns transparent.
How can a bag of skin hold divine magnitude?
Your last vestiges burn away in a torrent of infinity.
Only after indeterminate time do you return.
Flesh, blood, bone.
Were you gone? Or were you never here in the first place?
Where is the torrent?
It is not gone;
You've only closed to it once more.
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365 Tao
Daily Meditations
Deng Ming-Dao (author)
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