"When your constant virtue is complete,
You'll return to the state of uncarved wood."
Lau-Tzu
What does that mean?
Perhaps he means strong yet supple; smooth inside yet rough out; ever growing and changing yet remaining the same. The longer the growth period, the stronger you get. Uncarved, in terms of pristine, uncut, complete, the wounds have healed. One has regained the trust and innocence but it is tempered now with wisdom. As the tree intuitively seeks the source of the water as its means of sustenance, the constantly virtuous will intuitively seek the beauty of truth to sustain the clarity of oneness.
Or not.
I do not pretend to know.
But, statements like that do cause me to pause and think. To ponder all the subtle variations, all the possibilities, and attempt to find one that sits right with me. It gets me out of my monkey mind chatter about who did what and why did they do it. It causes me to go within and draw on all my knowledge and experiences; to weigh them and consider. The end result, even if I don't have an answer, is that I know myself and my relationship to the world a little bit better.
That helps me open my mind, shift my opinions, and move forward in a slightly different manner.
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