The urging was to go beyond the "form" of the words in the Taoist text and find the essence (or Reality). I will relinquish the platform to those luminaries whose body of work cannot be argued away as mere "words" in the "form" of "human speech." Th…
When one speaks of 'tribal (social) group instinct,' or 'focused and peripheral vision,' the only clarity which arises out of such an analysis is one of misguided attachment to the form (by reducing Tao to human logical/linguistic analysis) instead …
You do not need a 'master.' Everything you seek is already within you. More precisely, Tao is Tao, you cannot grasp it even with a thousand masters leading you. Allow the Tao within to realize itself.
This is the 'darkness within darkness, the ga…
the Tao is beyond our subjective ego-rational experience, hence it cannot be 'spoken' since this would reduce it down to our thought level, and thus it becomes nothing more than what we perceive it to be or what we wish to attribute to it.
Here w…