LIFE CYCLE
Clasp your lifeline and hold it dear.
Draw near to Tao and become honourable.
Wear your chains lightly and honourably.
Hold Tao close and act virtuously.
Cast off your ropes and sail away freely.
Embrace Tao fully and cast away honour.
Aloofness from Tao deadens life.
Intimacy with Tao enlivens death.
All the way?
All the Way.
Tao 'exists' beyond the realm
of the material universe; its timeless essence
endures throughout life and death.
Tao regards true humility as the root of
true greatness, which endures though flower, fruit and leaf
are fallen.
Tao is a pragmatic
philosophy offering helpful guidance and advice, not
inflexible rules, prescriptions or commandments.
There is no point to 'believing'
in Tao as it offers no explicit contract of faith; accept what
comes through living 'in the spirit of' Tao.
