HOMAGE TO DNA
III - 1
The Serpent Coil Of DNA
We meet it everywhere
But we do not see its front
We follow it everywhere
But we do not see its back
When we embrace this ancient serpent coil
We are masters of the moment
And we feel no break in the
Curling back to primeval beginnings
This may be called
Unraveling the clue of the life process
III - 2
Prehistoric Origins Of DNA
Its rising is not bright
nor its setting dark
Unceasing, continuous
Branching out in roots innumerable
Forever sending forth the serpent coil
of living things
Mysterious as the formless existence
to which it returns
Twisting back
Beyond mind
We say only that it is form from the formless
Life from spiral void
III - 3
Clear Water
The seed of mystery
Lies in muddy water
How can we fathom this muddiness?
Water becomes still through stillness
How can we become still?
By moving with the stream
III - 4
Returning To The Source - Repose
Be empty
Watch quietly while the ten thousand forms
swim into life and return to the source
Do nothing
Return to the source
Deep repose is the sign
That you have reached
The appointed goal
To return to the source is to
discover the eternal law of seed
He who returns to this eternal law is enlightened
Being enlightened he is serene
Being serene he is open-hearted
Being open-hearted he is beyond social games
Being beyond social games he is in tune with seed
Being in tune with seed he endures
Until the end of his life he is not in peril
III - 5
Lao Tse's Mind Becomes Pre-occupied
With A Very Difficult Subject
To Describe The Production
Of Material Forms
By The Tao
Is it a dream?
Shadowy
Elusive
Invisible
All things, all images move slowly
Within shimmering nets
Here essence endures
From here all forms emerge
All forms emerge from this second
Back to the ancient beginning
III - 6
Transfiguration Exercise
Transfiguration
What was inert.....moves
What was dead.....Lives
What was drab.....radiates
Galactic time has labored to produce
this moment-exquisite
See how each part joins the whole
The ancient saying that the isolated part
becomes whole was spoken wisely
Seed flows
All forms glow
Remain quiet
Pulsate
In
Harmony
III - 7
The Tree Above-The Tree Below
What is above is below
What is without is within
What is to come is in the past
Tall...deep...tree...green...branching...leaf
Root...above...below...thrusting...coiling
Sky...earth...stem...root
Soil...air
Seed
Soil...visible
Hidden...breathing...sucking
Bud...ooze...sun...damp
Light...dark...bright...decay...laugh
Tear...vein...rain...mud...branch...root
What is above is below
What is without is within
What is to come is in the past
These wooden carvings displayed in her endless shelves
Await-
Within each uncut branch-
The carver's knife
III - 8
Fourfold Representation Of The Mystery
Before Heaven and Earth
There was something
nebulous....
Tranquil....effortless
Permeating universally
Never tiring
Revolving Soundless
Fusion without mate
It may be regarded as the mother
of all organic forms
Its name is not known nor its language
But it is called the name TAO
The ancient sages to the best of their ability
inventing a description called it "great"
The great TAO
"Great" means-in harmony
In harmony means-tuned in
Tuned in means....going far
Going far means....return
To the harmony
Thus-there are four greatnesses....
The TAO is great
The coil of life is great
The body is great
And man is also designed in this image to be great
There are in existence four great notes
And man is made to be one thereof
Man places himself in harmony with his body
His body tunes itself to the slow unfolding of life
Life flows in harmony with the TAO
Out here you will know that it
all proceeds at the natural tempo
In tune
III - 9
The Seed Light
The seed light shines everywhere, left and right
All forms derive life from it
When the bodies are created it does not take
possession
It clothes and feeds the ten thousand things
And does not disturb their illusions
Magical helix...smallest form and
mother of all forms
The living are born, Flourish and disappear
Without knowing their seed creator
Helix of light
In all nature it is true that the wiser, the oldest
and the greater resides in the smaller
III - 10
This Is It
The seed moves so slowly and serenely
Moment to moment
That it appears inactive
The garden at sunrise breathing
The quiet breath of twilight
Moment to moment to moment
When man is in tune with this blissful rhythm
The ten thousand forms flourish
Without effort
Really!
It is all so simple
Each next moment.....
This is it!
III - 11
Gate Of The Soft Mystery
Valley of life
Gate of the Soft Mystery
Beginnings in the lowest place
Gate of the Soft Mystery
Gate of the Dark Woman
Gate of the Soft Mystery
Seed of all living
Gate of the Soft Mystery
Constantly enduring
gate of the Soft mystery
Use her gently and
Without the touch of pain
III - 12
The Lesson Of Seed
The soft overcomes he hard
The small overcomes the large
The gentle survives the strong
The invisible survives the visible
Fish should be left in the deep water
Fire and iron should be kept under ground
seed should be left free to grow.....
in.....
The rhythm of life
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