Tao te Ching
The Tao te Ching has been mentioned before. One of our world's most translated books.
The first chapter is worth looking up in various translations, each can help illuminate.
Here is one:-
The Way that can be walked is not the eternal Way.
The name that can be named is not the eternal name.
The nameless is the beginning of Heaven and Earth.
The named is the mother of all things.
Therefore:
Free from desire you see the mystery.
Full of desire you see the manifestations.
These two have the same origin but differ in name.
That is the secret,
The secret of secrets,
The gate to all mysteries.
A brief commentary from, I think, John Caputo:-
In this model, the whole of reality emerges out of a primordial non-dual Ground or Source of All Things. This Wholeness of Reality is then split into two by the action of human awareness, which creates a dualism between the observer and the observed in its perception and experience. Out of this two-ness emerges the entire world of multiplicity, of separate things and events in space-time. And when we take this multiplicity too far, and create parts of the whole that are not really separate or separable (such as human races or religions) we create fragmentation, which leads to a crisis in perception and violence and division in the world
The first chapter is worth looking up in various translations, each can help illuminate.
Here is one:-
The Way that can be walked is not the eternal Way.
The name that can be named is not the eternal name.
The nameless is the beginning of Heaven and Earth.
The named is the mother of all things.
Therefore:
Free from desire you see the mystery.
Full of desire you see the manifestations.
These two have the same origin but differ in name.
That is the secret,
The secret of secrets,
The gate to all mysteries.
A brief commentary from, I think, John Caputo:-
In this model, the whole of reality emerges out of a primordial non-dual Ground or Source of All Things. This Wholeness of Reality is then split into two by the action of human awareness, which creates a dualism between the observer and the observed in its perception and experience. Out of this two-ness emerges the entire world of multiplicity, of separate things and events in space-time. And when we take this multiplicity too far, and create parts of the whole that are not really separate or separable (such as human races or religions) we create fragmentation, which leads to a crisis in perception and violence and division in the world
