You are not anyone or anything in particular. You are awareness itself. You don't have a particular form. You contain everything or you are contained by all things.
Chaos is not disorder. Chaos is the totality of existence. You could call it God. You could use the term, the Tao. I like chaos. It means more to us in English. Chaos is all things, wild and wonderful, connected perfectly by the life force.
When there is time, there has to be suffering. Because in time there's desire and attachment and transition. This is the world of experience.
Most beings enjoy existence so time comes into being.
Everything is part of one web, one matrix of existence, beyond discussion. This is our true self in its undifferentiated form.
There is no way to measure it ... because there's no one to measure it.
Before perception, before a preceiver, existence was - is. This is the consciousness that we refer to as nirvana, God, eternity.
The Chinese used the symbol of tai chi, the undifferentiated reality - no separation, no left and right.
We can say the stars are moving because we have a relative context.
Change can only exist in time. Without time there is no change. Change can only exist with a background of that which is changeless, otherwise it has no definition.
When we have complements or oppositions, change occurs.
Initially there's absolutely nothing.
When there's no difference, there's no time, no world, no separativity - and there's no you ... nor is there an I.
For a person who lives in time, differences are the most important thing because they represent your existence.
Get some distance on yourself and undertand the multilevel structure that's operating. There's a power structure within you. You're a very political creature.
Examine everything that you've been taught, not simply what you've been taught in school, but the images that have been held up to you since the time of your birth.
Enlightenment comes through the feminine side of the being.
We should not weep or cry or be upset when we see the generations pass, because all are forms of the infinite creation. They are not real, they are not eternal.
Taoism shows us how to deal with life and death by realizing everything here is transitory but its substance is eternal.
Taoism extols the virtue of flexibility. What survives on earth is what effortlessly adapts to the changing environment and changing circumstances.
