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Look, It Cannot Be Seen
Look, it cannot be seen - it is beyond form.
Listen, it cannot be heard - it is beyond sound.
Grasp, it cannot be held - it is intangible.
These three are indefinable, they are one.
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From above it is not bright;
From below it is not dark:
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Unbroken thread beyond description.
It returns to nothingness.
Form of the formless,
Image of the imageless,
It is called indefinable and beyond imagination.
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Stand before it - there is no beginning.
Follow it and there is no end.
Stay with the Tao, Move with the present.
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Knowing the ancient beginning is the essence of Tao.
Poem by Lao Tzu
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Thereafter
Staggering and groping around
In broad daylight
Amongst the scarce sighted and sober
And the sea of blind and drunk
Lost
Yet the Way is ever so clear
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So lonely but how alone
Not in a six billion crowd
It is more than company
Frightened
Yet Its Hands like a fence enclose securely
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So weak almost faint
Drowning in loneliness and in the filth
Truth, knowledge and remembering flung into the deep sea
Hopeful
The rescue team is never afar off
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We are awakening,awaken
Raise the banner of the awakened soldier
Yet the staggering, the groping, the drowning, the falling
Keep on
In fear, in aloneness and in hope
Fredah Mainah © 2010
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