Tao..............................

Can you dissolve your ego?
Can you abandon the idea of
self and other?
Can you relinquish the notions of
male and female,
short and long,
life and death?
Can you let go of all these dualities
and embrace the Tao without
skepticism or panic?
If so, you can reach the heart of the
Integral Oneness.

Along the way, avoid thinking of the 
Oneness as unusual, exalted,
sublime, transcendental.
Because it is the Oneness,
it is beyond all that.
It is simply the direct, essential,
and complete truth.

-Hua Hu Ching:  The Unknown Teachings of Lao Tzu
Verse 14
Brian Browne Walker