The Way

The Way

The way you can travel

is not the actual Way

The name given it

is not its name

Heaven and our world

born in the unnamed

name the mother

of the infinite

So the un-needy spirit

sees all the unseen

the ever needy

only its need

Two with one origin,

differing in name,

mysterious in identity.

Mysterious to mystery,

the way to the unseen

A view of the first of Lao Tzu's,

"Tao Te Ching"paraphrasing

the outstanding English

translation by

Ursula K. Le Guin,

Shambala, 1998