Tao Te Ching Verse

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Number Fourteen: Before time

Look
The Tao cannot be seen
What came before
there were forms to be seen

Listen
The Tao cannot be heard
What came before
there were sounds to be heard

Touch
The Tao cannot be felt
What came before there were things to be touched

We have no name for this
this that has no surface
no underside.
this undetectable web that is above below within and outside of us
It stretches from before the beginning of time
to beyond the end of all universes

We struggle to imagine something that is outside of space time form or frequency
but something that is what everything arises from, and returns into

You cannot know it
but stay open to it
and the present moment might just open out into infinity”

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