Monday, December 7, 2009

The Way

Filed under: Poetry — by Will Kirkland @ 10:13 pm
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TaoTeChing Lao Tzu’s (Old Master) Tao Te Ching [Way and Virtue The Ancient Text] is one of the oldest meditations we have on the mysteries of existence and non-existence, light and dark, appearance and reality. Lao Tzu, to whom the text of some 81 verses [slightly different in some editions] is attributed, was likely a man by the name of Li Ehr, a keeper of the Royal Archives in the state of Chou about 516 BCE. He was known in his own time as a formidable intellect, immersed in the shamanistic and in the rationalized and organized systems of the court. He was a seer even Confucius was in awe of.

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