Frederick Lenz Quotes About Taoism
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The pageant of life is divided into ying and yang. They're two circles. You can follow either circle and manage to develop enough speed to move beyond this world to other worlds, dimensional realities.
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Buddhism teaches us not to want things, not to avoid things, not to be upset by the loss. In the I Ching, there's a hexagram that says, "Be like the sun at midday". View all things as being equal.
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Water always seeks the easiest path, the common level of life.
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Water uses itself to go beyond whatever it needs to go beyond.
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Without innocence, nothing can further, as they say in the I Ching.
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What we're seeking to do is become transparent. A transparent window on reality. But that takes time to do. We're starting with a very solid, objectified view of ourselves and existence
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Alow immortality to work through you. Be but a mere instrument. And that instrument should be so absorbed in the perfect perfection of existence, that it knows not even that it is absorbed.
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If you are interested in Taoism, I would suggest that you read the Way of Life by Lao Tsu, the founder of Taoism. I personally prefer the Witter Brynner translation.
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The dreams of existence of that we call time, space, matter, subject, object, yin, yang - everything flows forth from this tai chi.
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There is another kind of wisdom, the wisdom of following - the wisdom of not taking the lead with your ego.
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The mind of the child is not formed. We are shown that this is life, this is the world.
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Our seeing is sexual initially.
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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.
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Taoism is the way of water. The most frequent element or symbol refered to in Lao Tzu's wrtings is the symbol of water.
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What we are seeking is the nexus of all possible worlds and states of mind, which is within us. The source of yin and yang is within you.
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We can think of descriptions almost as computer languages, an operative description that only deals with very simple operations. Its code is sex - Male, female, dark, light, up down, in out - its the language of duality.
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When there's no difference, there's no time, no world, no separativity - and there's no you ... nor is there an I.
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Learn not to be attached to other people, to certain types of experiences. Allow the flow of life to guide you wherever it is supposed to and accept with equanimity, with balance, with poise, whatever happens.
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Taoism is the gentle way. The path of least resistence.
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Be in harmony with the Tao, with the basic principles of creation. To not be in harmony with that flow, no matter how hard you meditate, you will not be happy and you won't be liberated.
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The Grand Canyon is living evidence of the power of water over a period of time. The power may not manifest immediately. Water can be very powerful, like a tidal wave.
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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.
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The primary quality that Lao Tzu seems to emobdy is humility, which is the image of water - seeking the common level of existence.
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Just as when water is frozen in to a form as ice and then melts - so at the time of death, there is no death. The spirit simply changes form.
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There is no way to measure it ... because there's no one to measure it.
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Enlightenment is part of everything and so our minds have to be very big to encompass all things, to understand all things - To see the tao in a grape, the act of sexuality, meditation, work, play, taking a shower, brushing your teeth, being sick and hurting.
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Gradually, you were given a description of the world, a way of seeing, which is largely sexual.
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If there's no background, no foreground, no opposition, no complements, then there's no change becasue there's no subject and object.
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Some people think Taoism means not doing anything, just going on with your life. That has little or nothing to do with Taoism.
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We create ying and yang, yes and no, plus and minus.
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