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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
by vinckr 4y ago
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.
- erisinger 4y agoIs this this the Mitchell translation?
- CMCDragonkai 4y agoIs this original daoism or did you derive it from something?
- Smaug123 4y agoYes, this is from the start of the Tao Te Ching. Ursula le Guin rendered it thus: > For the unwanting soul sees what's hidden, while the ever-wanting soul sees only what it wants. Two things, one origin, but different in name, whose identity is mystery. Mystery of all mysteries! the door to the hidden.