Spoken Tao is not eternal Tao
                        Spoken name is not eternal name
                     
                 Nameless is the source of all
                     Named is the source of the myriad things
                    
                           Ever desireless one sees wonders
                   Ever desiring one sees manifestations
                         
                        These two are the same in origin
                   yet differ in name
                
                        The origin is the great mystery
                  Gateway to all understanding
                      

                        To hold Tao and Te

                      
                       
                         know masculine
                      yet abide in feminine
                     be a child of the world
                       
                       know light
                       yet abide in black
                          be a pattern of the world
                          
                         know glory
                            yet abide in humility
                             be a reflection of the world
                            
                            know division
                            yet abide in unity
                              be a master of the world

                                  I do not know its name I call it Tao

                         It flows
                            up and down
                         far and near
                         in and out
                          ever leaving and ever returning

                            Humankind follows earth
                                    Earth follows heaven
                                  Heaven follows Tao
                           Tao follows Tao

                                 Author Unkown

                                         Believing in Ourselves
                           For in relating our separate expierences to one another,
                                       in weaving them into coherence
                              and therefore significance,
                                       a sense of wholeness arises, a totality which,
                         By virtue of our active participation,
                                 constitutes direct and immediate comprehension
                              of ourselves and the universe of which we are integral parts.
                              Paula Gunn Allen

                      OPEN THE DOOR TO ENLIGHTENMENT

                          "One should not honour only one's religion
and condemn the religions of others,
                          but one should honor other's religions for this or that reason.
                         So doing, one helps one's own religion to grow
                          and renders service to the religions of others too.
                         In acting otherwise one digs the grave of one's own religion
                      and also does harm to other religions.
                                Whosoever honours his own religion and condemns other                                religions, does so indeed through devotion to his own,
                              thinking 'I will glorify my own religion'.
                        But on the contrary, in so doing
                           he injures his own religion more gravely.
                            So concord is good: Let all listen, and be willing to listen
                       to the doctrines professed by others."
                                   *The Buddhist Emperor Asoka had this inscribed on rock,
                          and the original can still be read today.

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