"This may sound fanciful," writes our roving mythographer Peter Kohler, "but Lao Tzu is said to have lived in his mother’s womb for sixty-four years before emerging with his flowing white beard to join the ten thousand things.
"'Mother,' here, is quite possibly a metaphor. And by the 'ten thousand things' is meant all the trouble and sparkle of this place we know as home, the material world, the mountains and streams and animals and computer screens of it."
Meet the enigmatic Lao Tzu, the ancient philosopher who penned the Tao Te Ching and inspired the spiritual tradition of Taoism. As Kohler observes, the Old Master left us with much to ponder concerning that slippery phenomenon we call "reality." Read more...
"'Mother,' here, is quite possibly a metaphor. And by the 'ten thousand things' is meant all the trouble and sparkle of this place we know as home, the material world, the mountains and streams and animals and computer screens of it."
Meet the enigmatic Lao Tzu, the ancient philosopher who penned the Tao Te Ching and inspired the spiritual tradition of Taoism. As Kohler observes, the Old Master left us with much to ponder concerning that slippery phenomenon we call "reality." Read more...
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