Tao Te Ching Verse 2- by Leslie Smith

Tao Te Ching Verse 2

When people see some things as beautiful,
other things become ugly.
When people see some things as good,

other things become bad.

Being and non-being create each other.

Difficult and easy support each other.

Long and short define each other.

High and low depend on each other.

Before and after follow each other.

Therefore the Master

acts without doing anything

and teaches without saying anything.

Things arise and she lets them come;

things disappear and she lets them go.

She has but doesn't possess,

acts but doesn't expect.

When her work is done, she forgets it.

That is why it lasts forever.

Interpretation from my perspective:

We create separations in our minds, opposites, polarities, because we use judgment to place value upon things. We can only identify beautiful because we've identified ugly. We can only identify good because we've identified bad. This is true for all things that we place opposite values on. You cannot be part of the whole, because that would imply again, a separation, a duality. Therefore, we are the Whole. It's a paradox but we live it while roaming this physical plane. It is possible to be in the paradox and not be of the paradox. We can be in the world but not of it. Be in the world knowing that there is Unity, that there is no reason to judge anything and place value upon the things of the world, because all things are the same, all things come from one. Be inside of the stillness. See God in all things. Whether something has been judged as beautiful or ugly matters not, whether a person has been identified as good or bad matters not, the sun still shines upon all things, without favor.

Blessings,
Leslie

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