When we see beyond the desire to use
label names (to identify reality),
we can sense the nameless cause of effects
The cause and the effects are aspects of
the same, one thing.
They are both mysterious and profound.
At their most mysterious and profound point lies
the "Gate of the Great Truth".
~ Tao Te Ching ~
My Commentary:
label names (to identify reality),
we can sense the nameless cause of effects
The cause and the effects are aspects of
the same, one thing.
They are both mysterious and profound.
At their most mysterious and profound point lies
the "Gate of the Great Truth".
~ Tao Te Ching ~
My Commentary:
The human tendency to put label names on the unfathomable mystery that surrounds us all tends to take away from the unfathomable mystery and turns the miraculous into the mundane
For example, you most probably think you know what a tree is because you have been taught the label name and have seen the SURFACE of trees, but to truly, personally (((KNOW))) a tree as a sentient, living being is something else entirely
I have many tree friends who are ancient. I KNOW them personally. My near-death experiences have made my relationships with trees into first-hand knowledge of their sentience. In order to truly KNOW a tree you have to directly experience a tree. A tree has to know you personally and like you enough to reveal the secret of its essential living, sentient nature
Until you truly KNOW a tree personally you do not really know a tree. You may think you do, but all you know are labels and assumptions
It is through the gate of inner-silence that we stop all the labels we were brainwashed with
and can sense the Sentient Nature of the Universe and taste of its precious living nectar
The sweet nectar of the Sentient Universe can indeed be sampled through an intimate, Romantic relationship with an ancient tree
It can be sampled through many things
It can be sampled through a rock at a sacred natural site
or the Spirit of a Sacred Mountain
To look at a tree is to see the effect
To sample the nectar of the tree’s loving sentience
Is to taste of the great profound mystery
Symbolized by the “Gate of the Great Truth”
Many can, at best, allude to that great un-namable mystery
and call it the Tao
It is an attempt to put a label on that
upon which a label will just fall off
because it has no physical existence
To hang a label on
It always is and always is not; all at the same time
That which makes no sense is the cause
from which all effects have their existence
For example, you most probably think you know what a tree is because you have been taught the label name and have seen the SURFACE of trees, but to truly, personally (((KNOW))) a tree as a sentient, living being is something else entirely
I have many tree friends who are ancient. I KNOW them personally. My near-death experiences have made my relationships with trees into first-hand knowledge of their sentience. In order to truly KNOW a tree you have to directly experience a tree. A tree has to know you personally and like you enough to reveal the secret of its essential living, sentient nature
Until you truly KNOW a tree personally you do not really know a tree. You may think you do, but all you know are labels and assumptions
It is through the gate of inner-silence that we stop all the labels we were brainwashed with
and can sense the Sentient Nature of the Universe and taste of its precious living nectar
The sweet nectar of the Sentient Universe can indeed be sampled through an intimate, Romantic relationship with an ancient tree
It can be sampled through many things
It can be sampled through a rock at a sacred natural site
or the Spirit of a Sacred Mountain
To look at a tree is to see the effect
To sample the nectar of the tree’s loving sentience
Is to taste of the great profound mystery
Symbolized by the “Gate of the Great Truth”
Many can, at best, allude to that great un-namable mystery
and call it the Tao
It is an attempt to put a label on that
upon which a label will just fall off
because it has no physical existence
To hang a label on
It always is and always is not; all at the same time
That which makes no sense is the cause
from which all effects have their existence
