“The Tao is (like) the emptiness of a vessel; and in our employment of it we must be on our guard against all fulness. How deep and unfathomable it is, as if it were the Honoured Ancestor of all things!”
There is something inexpressibly thrilling about the Eastern expositions of the Absolute Reality. How far these words are from the fawning and flattering matter-and-power-oriented effusions of those who seek to placate a testy and haywire deity made in the image of their own flawed egos. Even though no words can really approach Its essence, yet Its glory flows in superabundance into even the worlds of relative existence. Actually those worlds are Its superabundance! And when the sages who are united with It speak of Its wonder, those who have evolved to the point of conscious seeking respond with joy and acclamation.
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