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Taoist

12th Century

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English version by
Thomas Cleary

Original Language
Chinese

Precious Treatise on Preservataion of Unity on the Great Way

Recommended Books

	Immortal Sisters: Secret Teachings of Taoist Women, Edited by Thomas Cleary
	The Shambhala Anthology of Women's Spiritual Poetry, Edited by Aliki Barnstone
	Women in Praise of the Sacred: 43 Centuries of Spiritual Poetry by Women, Edited by Jane Hirshfield

The Tao is uncontrived, yet there is nothing it does not do.
It can be witnessed by the mind, not known by knowledge.
What is "knowing"? What is "witness"?
Knowledge dismisses knowledge.

Witness only responds.
Response comes from nowhere.

Mind then penetrates.
Penetrate the One, and all tasks are done.

The One is the root.
The task is the door.
When the task returns to One, the One is ever present.

The presence should not be reified;
provisionally we speak of keeping it.

Keep open selflessness and naturally be eternal.

-- from Immortal Sisters: Secret Teachings of Taoist Women, Edited by Thomas Cleary

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