DETACHMENT
Short can overtop tall.
Small can exceed large.
One can outnumber many.An edge can join to a centre.
Remoteness merges with closeness.
Solitude can accompany a multitude.
Advance by retreating.
See farther out by looking deeper within.
Enlighten the wordly by the darkness of the unwordly.
All being well?
'Allbeing-well'!
The
sage is often caricatured as a loner, misfit or social
outcast, immersed in the depths of an immaterial realm - or
even drowning in it!
Conversely,
the 'worldly-wise' is characterised by unequivocal and
unquestioning attachment to the superficiality of
material existence.
Tao
seeks harmony between these extremes: by activating a
personality's potential 'sage-aspect', with its
inspirational and imaginative powers,
to infuse, invigorate and complement
its abilities to survive and thrive materially; a
prescription for a well-balanced or wholesome individual.
When
'the world is too much with us', a period
of retreat, or time in the
wilderness, frees the
over-occupied mind from
mundane trivialities,
and restores its relationship to a more fundamental and
essential nature. Tao portrays this as a rebalancing, or
reconnection to one's roots.
