TAO TE CHING - a study and UNDERSTANDING (paradise, experience)

[zenzero]

Ah! That beautiful mystery. *smile* Makes my heart smile just to refer to it ... the joy of being, and of being cognizant of being. And that being including the good, the bad, and all the rest.

Pure X,

Alls fine except that the duality is still there; someone to feel that joy still lingers.
The final stgae should be pure conciousness if X refers to conciousness- PURE X.
Love & rgds.

[zenzero]

Since there are no doubts raised by the readers; it is taken that they have understood the first two stanzas. Now, we shall attempt the third stanza:
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If you overesteem great men,
people become powerless.
If you overvalue possessions,
people begin to steal.


[ If one over estimates great men/ powerful men; the other people become powerless. Understand this line if one overvalues possessions, people begin to steal. Means those who are very attached to material things will get them stolen as those who does not give materials things much heed it makes no difference what happens to it. They use it if they have it if not too its fine. The lose of a thing happens when one values it then only its loss affects the person and misses it, otherwise not much attention is given to having or nat having]

The Master leads
by emptying people's minds
and filling their cores,
by weakening their ambition
and toughening their resolve.
He helps people lose everything
they know, everything they desire,
and creates confusion
in those who think that they know.


[ The master leads by emptying the minds clearly means he goes about getting them to still their minds or empty their thoughts from the minds. Here too it’s the opposites that is in play. When the ambitions or mind trainings and mind play are weakened and at the same time their determination to get back to the source, to merge into that NOTHINGNESS becomes stronger; the real person emerges, the nature slowly takes charge and strengthens the individual. The confusion here is bound to happen when one who for many many lives have been living by using the mind which is the most normal thing to do has to still it is very very difficult to comprehend itself and the mind starts creating the confusion at to what is right. What was known to be right by the knowledgeable person or the desiring mind is found to be the maya/false/illusion; is confusing for the individual.

Practice not-doing,
and everything will fall into place.

[Practice not doing. The most difficult part. I exits so I am doing ? Here one has to understand that he is a part of the whole existence. Existence goes about his own work irrespective of the individual. It is only the mind that gives the feeling that man is doing. The global warming is caused by greenhouse is not proved; the other aspect if there is warming the opposite too will be there, a great cooling too will be developing somewhere. Like pull and push all opposites happen simultaneously. So whatever one is doing his just happening through him but he is not a part of it. It is no doubt the most difficult part as non-duality is the last stage but one needs to start practicing it to be perfect in it at some point.]