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Taoist

12th Century

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Timeline (1124 - 1182?)

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English version by
Thomas Cleary

Original Language
Chinese

The beginning of the sustenance of life

Themes

Light

Moon

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 beginning of the sustenance of life
Is all in yin and yang.
The limitless can open up
The light of the great limit.
Diligently polished, the mirror of the mind
Is bright as the moon;
The universe in a grain
May rise, or it may hide.

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

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