You are still convinced that your understanding is a powerful contribution to the truth, and makes it what it is. Yet we have emphasized that you need understand nothing. (ACIM: Text: Chapter 18:IV:7:5-6)
Hmm! In other words...if we understand it or not the truth really doesn't care. It is still the truth doing what truth does. This to me, is one of the biggest take aways so far in my reading of the Tao. Whether we understand the truth, the Tao, the divine Mystery is irrelevant to it. It still is all that It is. And the thing is...we are not going to understand It with our minds...it doesn't work that way.
How could we ever understand or explain the vastness of the universe...the mystery...what forever alludes conceptual thought...with a few words and syllables. (Tolle...somewhat clipped and paraphrased)
What parts of these first eight verses of the Tao stresses this?
The name that can be named is not the enduring and unchanging name.
Under these two aspects, it really is the same; but as development takes place, it receives the different names
Therefore the sage manages affairs without doing anything, and conveys his instructions without the use of speech.
He constantly keeps them without knowledge and without desire, and where there is those who have knowledge, to keep them from presuming to act (on it).
How deep and unfathomable it is...
...that of the mind is in abysmal stillness
Our travelling the way is best accomplished when we accept that we know nothing and do not try to fill our moments with ceaseless interpreting, judging, solving and doing. We really cannot understand this vastness, this mystery with our conceptual minds. The more we do so, the farther away from it we get. In peace is every breath Thich Nhat Hanh puts it this way: An overloaded boat is easily capsized by wind and waves. Lighten your load, and your boat will travel more quickly and safely.(pg 52)
We need to let go. We need to learn to say: "I just don't know". And be okay with that.
All is well.
You are still convinced that your understanding is a powerful contribution to the truth, and makes it what it is. Yet we have emphasized that you need understand nothing. (ACIM: Text: Chapter 18:IV:7:5-6)
Hmm! In other words...if we understand it or not the truth really doesn't care. It is still the truth doing what truth does. This to me, is one of the biggest take aways so far in my reading of the Tao. Whether we understand the truth, the Tao, the divine Mystery is irrelevant to it. It still is all that It is. And the thing is...we are not going to understand It with our minds...it doesn't work that way.
How could we ever understand or explain the vastness of the universe...the mystery...what forever alludes conceptual thought...with a few words and syllables. (Tolle...somewhat clipped and paraphrased)
What parts of these first eight verses of the Tao stresses this?
The name that can be named is not the enduring and unchanging name.
Under these two aspects, it really is the same; but as development takes place, it receives the different names
Therefore the sage manages affairs without doing anything, and conveys his instructions without the use of speech.
He constantly keeps them without knowledge and without desire, and where there is those who have knowledge, to keep them from presuming to act (on it).
How deep and unfathomable it is...
...that of the mind is in abysmal stillness
Our travelling the way is best accomplished when we accept that we know nothing and do not try to fill our moments with ceaseless interpreting, judging, solving and doing. We really cannot understand this vastness, this mystery with our conceptual minds. The more we do so, the farther away from it we get. In peace is every breath Thich Nhat Hanh puts it this way: An overloaded boat is easily capsized by wind and waves. Lighten your load, and your boat will travel more quickly and safely.(pg 52)
We need to let go. We need to learn to say: "I just don't know". And be okay with that.
All is well.
References
ACIM
Legge. J. (1981) Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching. https://www.sacred-texts.com/tao/taote.htm
Tolle, Eckhart (2019) What I am means? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpRshKVMSKk
References
ACIM
Legge. J. (1981) Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching. https://www.sacred-texts.com/tao/taote.htm
Tolle, Eckhart (2019) What I am means? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpRshKVMSKk
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