Note sull'episodio
Zen Roshi, Lola McDowell Lee, continues a discussion of Lao Tsu’s Tao Te Ching. Today, Chapter 16 (Suzuki translation)
By attaining the height of abstraction we gain fulness of rest.
All the ten thousand things arise
And I see them return.
Now they bloom in bloom
But each one homeward returneth to its root.
Returning to the root means rest.
It signifies the return according to destiny.
Return according to destiny means the eternal.
Knowing the eternal means enlightenment.
Not knowing the eternal causes passions to rise; and that is evil.
Knowing the eternal renders comprehensive.
Comprehensiveness renders broad.
Breadth renders royal.
Royalty renders heavenly.
Heaven r ...