Kayou wrote:
Final thought from Kayou:
The greatest accomplishments seem imperfect,
yet their usefulness is not diminished.
The greatest fullness seems empty,
yet it will be inexhaustible.
The greatest straightness seems crooked.
The most valued skill seems like clumsiness.
The greatest speech seems full of stammers.
Movement overcomes the cold,
and stillness overcomes the heat.
That which is pure and still is the universal ideal.
Be with the Tao my friends. I am dropping off the boards until I reincarnate.
Some more-obscure Taoism from Myo-en to her friend, as seems fitting...
The Master said [of his beloved], "When she died, do you think I didn't grieve like anyone else? But I looked back to her beginning and the time before she was born.
Not only the time before she was born, but the time before she had a body.
Not only the time before she had a body, but the time before she had a spirit.
In the midst of the jumble of wonder and mystery a change took place and she had a spirit.
Another change and she had a body.
Another change and she was born.
Now there's been another change and she's dead. It's just like the progression of the four seasons, spring, summer, fall, winter.
Now she’s going to lie down peacefully in a vast room. If I were to follow after her bawling and sobbing, it would show that I don’t understand anything about fate. So I stopped.”And also,
"So now I think of heaven and earth as a great furnace, and the Creator as a skilled smith. Where could he send me that would not be all right? I will go off to sleep peacefully, and then with a start I will wake up.”Can't wait to meet you when you return. <3
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