Tao of Relationships : Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching Adapted for a New Age

by Grigg, Ray

• ISBN13: 9780893341046
• ISBN10: 0893341045
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1988-02-01
• Publisher: Lightning Source Inc

Summary

When a loving couple unite, they experience the balance of the Tao. The balancing of man and woman is not just their coming together, but their ability to stay separate. Love, like the Tao, cannot be limited by time or words, It moves from the yin and yang of male/female to the mystical wholeness of the Tao.

Author Biography

Ray Grigg has been a teacher of English literary history, fine arts, cultural history, and world religions in the British Columbia senior secondary school system for over twenty years. He holds two degrees from the University of British Columbia and has traveled extensively in over forty countries. He now lives with his wife on Quadra Island, British Columbia.

Table of Contents

Introduction
The Tao	p. 1
Practicing for Now	p. 3
Beyond Measure	p. 3
Just Doing	p. 5
By Remaining Still	p. 5
The Great Allowing	p. 7
The Boundless Room	p. 7
To Keep the Bond	p. 9
Have Each Other As If	p. 9
Becomes From Within	p. 9
Not a Mystery	p. 11
Without	p. 11
Foolish Play	p. 11
The Place to Begin	p. 13
The Greatness of Simple	p. 13
Attend to the Ordinary	p. 13
Balance the Universe	p. 15
Thoughts and Questions	p. 15
Because of Our Changing	p. 17
Finding is Recognizing	p. 17
And Its Passing	p. 19
With the Spoken Question	p. 19
So Obvious	p. 19
The Journey to the Beginning	p. 21
The Silent Ground	p. 21
Practice Humility	p. 23
Words Are Easy	p. 23
To Possess the Sky	p. 25
Effortless As Birth and Death	p. 25
Found by a Way	p. 27
Meeting Like Water	p. 27
Having Been for So Long	p. 29
To Find the Tao	p. 29
Every Is	p. 29
Beneath Each Knowing	p. 31
The Tao's Way	p. 31
Man / Woman	p. 33
Close to the Great Mother	p. 35
Both Halves of Now	p. 35
The Fulfillment of Each	p. 37
By Unknowing	p. 37
Undivided Silence	p. 39
Foolish Seriousness	p. 39
The Simple and Great	p. 39
The Other's Hidden Centre	p. 41
Only As Itself	p. 41
Embraced By Emptiness	p. 43
Within Her Holding	p. 43
Attached By Each Other	p. 45
The Trunk and Roots of Words	p. 45
The Uncommon Man	p. 47
Apprenticeships	p. 47
More Easily Found	p. 49
The Sage's Way	p. 49
The One That Is Both	p. 49
Wholeness Again	p. 51
That Each May Be Greater	p. 51
Enter the Between	p. 51
When There is the Tao	p. 53
But Silently Laugh	p. 53
The Primal is Tamed	p. 55
Primal Dark	p. 55
Man's Death in Woman	p. 57
Is-Not Is As Great As Is	p. 57
Serious Riddle	p. 59
Each Body's Other Body	p. 59
The Tao Is Like Nothing	p. 61
Without Words	p. 61
Broad Harmony	p. 63
Silently Certain	p. 63
Letting Go	p. 65
If Man Wanted Only Light	p. 65
From Easiness With the Ordinary	p. 67
Young Lovers' Riddles	p. 67
Separateness / Togetherness	p. 69
Arises From Itself	p. 71
With Beginning and End Clear	p. 71
Easy Silence	p. 71
Empty and Full	p. 73
Hiding	p. 73
In the Stillness of Right Time	p. 75
Separate Without Separateness	p. 75
Most Together	p. 77
One Thing Comes from Another	p. 77
Crooked And Round	p. 79
Right Mind	p. 79
In Each Two	p. 81
Third Mind	p. 81
Seed And Soil	p. 83
Finding	p. 83
The Obvious That Is the Secret	p. 85
One-Legged Mind	p. 85
Secret Meeting Secret	p. 87
Rely On the Effortless	p. 87
To Be Within Both	p. 89
To Lose and Find Both	p. 89
Finding Its Own Course	p. 91
As Easy As Being Found	p. 91
Deep Meeting	p. 93
Quite Enough	p. 93
With No Effort	p. 95
With Mind Wide Open	p. 95
Between Thoughts	p. 97
Hardness / Softness	p. 99
Between Birth and Death	p. 101
Winning and Losing	p. 101
Because of Their Softening	p. 101
Deep Quiet	p. 103
The Wisdom In Everything	p. 103
Softening	p. 105
To Be Used	p. 105
Between Hardness and Softness	p. 107
The Softness of Beginning	p. 107
Ocean Womb	p. 109
Different Equals	p. 109
Through His Hardness	p. 111
Through Her Softness	p. 111
Hardness Is the Burden	p. 113
By Emptying	p. 113
Leading From Behind	p. 115
Find Awe	p. 115
Both Hardness and Softness	p. 117
Beyond Every Stone	p. 117
Neither Stone nor Water	p. 119
Be Without Purpose	p. 119
Changing / Unchanging	p. 121
Let the Changing Change	p. 123
In Its Proper Time	p. 123
Ever Becoming	p. 125
The Downward Way	p. 125
Trust the Returning	p. 127
Each Time Has	p. 127
A Special Kind of Keeping	p. 129
In the Very Centre of Now	p. 129
Know Like Water	p. 131
Also Be River	p. 131
Become Changing	p. 133
Through Is Between	p. 133
The Riddle Called Thinking	p. 135
Finding / Losing	p. 137
Lose and Find	p. 139
Between One and Other	p. 139
Knowing Deepens	p. 141
Into Deeper Unknown	p. 141
The Moment of Finding	p. 141
Another Knowing	p. 143
Losing and Finding	p. 143
The Lost and Found Way	p. 145
Lost in Each Other	p. 145
Within Between	p. 147
Giving / Receiving	p. 149
Find Without Taking	p. 151
Full Of Emptiness	p. 151
Give Gently	p. 151
A Kind Of Giving	p. 153
Into One Disappears	p. 153
Outside That is Inside	p. 155
To Receive	p. 155
The Vitality Of Riddles	p. 157
Giving and Receiving	p. 157
Some Great Matter	p. 159
Fullness / Emptiness	p. 161
Find What Is Not	p. 163
Remember Emptiness	p. 163
Begin By Emptying	p. 165
All the Emptying Of River	p. 167
Empty Into Emptiness	p. 169
What Is and What Is Not	p. 169
Is and Is-Not	p. 171
Fullness Carrying Emptiness	p. 171
Fullness Desires	p. 173
Because There Is Emptiness	p. 173
Woman's Emptiness	p. 175
Always Waiting	p. 175
Surrounding The Emptiness	p. 175
Body of Earth	p. 177
Accept the Breathing	p. 177
Like the Breathing Tao	p. 179
In Such a Meeting	p. 179
The Humility of Knowing	p. 181
Only the Passing Stays	p. 181
The Lover's Balance	p. 183
More Than Greatest	p. 183
The Tao's Breath	p. 185
Forbidden Yet Promised	p. 185
In an Endless Beginning	p. 187
Waiting Emptiness	p. 187
Its Own Other Body	p. 189
Union	p. 191
So Much Is Found	p. 193
Without Question	p. 193
From Moment To Moment	p. 195
With the Readiness Of Knowing	p. 195
Please the Prima Play	p. 195
All the Ancient Steps	p. 197
Only Body Knows	p. 197
Bodies Understand the Tao	p. 199
Beyond Union	p. 199
Undoing Different	p. 201
Deep Within Living Everyting	p. 201
Lovers Find What Sages Seek	p. 203
Passing and Becoming	p. 203
Earth Breathes Itself	p. 205
The Need of Each	p. 205
Full Range	p. 207
Taking the River's Time	p. 207
A Beginning of the Beginning	p. 209
Mere Body	p. 211
Mind Follows Body's Thinking	p. 211
Let Body Decide	p. 213
Eyes Distant and Fresh	p. 213
Its Own Returning Time	p. 215
By Body's Doing	p. 215
The Simple and Obvious	p. 217
Both Feet Must Dance	p. 219
A Special Stillness	p. 221
The Effortless Effort	p. 221
Without Man and Woman	p. 223
Amazing Now	p. 223
Each Time's Return	p. 225
The Other Half of Wholeness	p. 225
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