Looked
at but not seen,
listened to but not heard,
grasped for but not held, formless,
soundless, intangible: the tao
resists analysis and defies
comprehension.
Its rising
is not about light,
its setting not a matter of
darkness. Unnameable, unending,
emerging continually, and continually
pouring back into nothingness, it is
formless form, unseeable image,
elusive, evasive unimaginable
mystery. Confront it, and
you won’t see its face.
Follow it and you
can’t find an
end.
Perceive its
ancient subtle heart, however,
and you become master of the moment.
Know what came before time, and
the beginning of wisdom
is yours.
from The Tao te Ching of Lao Tzu,
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