The Taoist Trader: Tao Te Ching (Chapter 1, Part 2) Darkness within darkness. The gate to all mystery. ( By Lao Tsu, translated by Gia-Fu Feng and Jane English) “Darkness within darkness, The gate to all mystery” means that the rational mind cannot penetrate the mystery of life, the mystery of the Tao. The darkness […]
Seeing through the Trading Matrix: First Glimpse of the Ox (Zen Ox-Herding Picture 3)
The third Zen Ox-herding picture or the third stage on the road to enlightenment in Zen Buddhism is called “First Glimpse of the Ox.” Hixon writes: “In every activity, the Source is manifestly present. When the inner vision is properly focused, one comes to realize that which is seen as identical with the true Source” […]