Valentines Day

Love the whole world as if it were your self


then you will truly care for all things. The Tao

All this talk of emptiness

The Tao says:

Thirty spokes are joined together in a wheel,
but it is the center hole that allows the wheel to function.

We mold clay into a pot, but it is the emptiness inside that makes the vessel useful.

We fashion wood for a house, but it is the emptiness inside that makes it livable.

All this talk of emptiness
Empty of what?

A separate self.

Yin Moon

Before the world was

And the sky was filled with stars

There was a strange unfathomable body

This being, this body is silent

and beyond all substance and sensing

It has always been here, and it always will be

Everything comes from it,

it is the Mother of Everything

I do not know its name.

So I call it Tao

from the Tao Te Ching

Yin

'Understand the thrust of yang

But be more like yin in your being

Be like a valley that parts to its stream;

Be like a stream for the earth

And channel it, so it flows to the sea

Be newborn - be free of yourself

be humble, be earthy, be a valley for the whole world.'

Quote from the Tao Te Ching by Man-Ho Kwok