[lit-ideas] Re: The Strident Voice of the Nonverbal
- From: "John McCreery" <john.mccreery@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2007 08:50:57 +0900
On 1/15/07, Eric Yost <eyost1132@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>Martha Graham, "If I could tell you what it meant, I
wouldn't have to dance it"
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The tao that can be told
is not the eternal Tao.
The name that can be named
is not the eternal Name.
The unnamable is the eternally real.
Naming is the origin
of all particular things.
Free from desire, you realize the mystery.
Caught in desire, you see only the manifestations.
Yet mystery and manifestations
arise from the same source.
This source is called darkness.
Darkness within darkness.
The gateway to all understanding.
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Poem No. 1 in
*Tao Te Ching
* Lao-tzu (abt.551-479 BCE)
* translated by Stephen Mitchell * 1988 ISBN 0-06-016001-2
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