the mindfulness oracle

This year we celebrated the new year with the Still Water folks at a New Year’s Day brunch. The highlight of the event is the visit from the mindfulness oracle (or maybe The Mindfulness Oracle), who delivers what you need in the new year via chapters from the Tao Te Ching.

Apparently, what I need this year is also what I needed last year, because I received the same selection two years in a row. It happens to also be the first chapter, so I will start 2010 from the beginning and in the darkness again. Not so different from any other year, really.

The tao that can be told
is not the eternal Tao.
The name that can be named
is not the eternal Name.

The unnameable is the eternally real.
Naming is the origin
of all particular things.

Free from desire, you realize the mystery.
Caught in desire, you see only the
manifestations.

Yet mystery and manifestations
arise from the same source.
This source is called darkness.

Darkness within darkness.
The gateway to all understanding.

— from the Tao Te Ching, Stephen Mitchell translation

the mindfulness oracle

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