Taoism
Taoism (or Daoism) is an ancient Chinese philosophy.
The Tao Te Ching is considered the work of the ‘Old Master’, Lao Tzu, a senior contemporary of Confucius. It contains some of humanity’s highest wisdom.
Rosemarie Anderson’s new translation The Divine Feminine Tao Te Ching, uses the oldest known copies of the Tao De Ching: ancient silk and bamboo scripts and restores the feminine essence of the Tao De Ching.. She discovered the Tao was definitely feminine as she was consistently referred to as ‘mother’, ‘virgin’ and the ‘womb’ of creation.
Rosemarie ‘shows how the The Tao’s message of ’Wei wu Wei’: act without acting’ and ‘do without doing’ are the paths of peace and well-being for ourselves and for our relationships with others and the earth, a path that arises from spontaneous action that seeks no gain for the self.’
The first chapter is:
Is not the everlasting Tao
The name that can be named
Is not the everlasting name
Nameless is the virgin of all things
Named is the mother of all things
Free of desire we see subtleties
Not free we see only things
The two are the same
Yet Arise as two
A oneness called dark
Dark beyond dark is
The door to all subtleties
References
| Media | Author/Director | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Book | Rosemarie Anderson | The Divine Feminine Tao Te Ching |
