an epistle to lao tzu

i'm beginning to see more clearly that most if not all translations of the tao have missed the true deep wisdom of lao tzu. #27 is example.

translations speak of perfect locks & sages abandoning no one & cloaking light & teachers respecting students & vice versa & subtle mystery.

but not one translation that i've read ties it all together into some cohesive unity of wisdom but rather it appears to be confusion itself.

but there's a key to the lock of #27 & that's veiled light. this IS the student & the actual resource the teacher uses. it IS the teaching.

that all are veiled light is the subtle mystery. it is why a sage saves all & abandons none. it's why true teaching ends in perfect wisdom.

if a teacher does not see light already there in the student and the student does not see the light in the teacher, there is only confusion.

without understanding all students are already light, but veiled, the teacher is a mere intellectual, a lightweight & his/her teaching useless.

and it is why most, if not all, translations of the tao are unworthy of the master. they fail to see that hidden light in themselves.

in the end, there's no teacher, no student, no teaching, no lao tzu, no translator, no reader, only light, only travelling w/o tracks, Way.

an epistle to j.d. salinger

just finished reading 'catcher in the rye' appears to be a nondual novel; holden is consciousness dreaming all the characters; esp. siblings.

"if you want to know the truth, i don't know what i think about it."

allie is the universal consciousness lost; phoebe is the natural going, & d.b. (de-be) the false arriving

"about all i know is, I sort of miss everybody I told about."

more fun facts: a caul (as in holden CAULfield) is the amniotic membrane that encases the unborn.

"don't ever tell anybody anything. if you do, you start missing everybody."

also interesting brother who appears last is d.b. de-be the shrinks are trying to condition holden back into this character of un-being.

"i mean how do you know what you're going to do till you do it? the answer is, you don't. i think i am, but how do i know?"

salinger created many levels to story: coming of age; psychological of universal to ego; reincarnation of soul; dream story of consciousness.

“I didn't know anybody there that was splendid & clear-thinking &all. Maybe two guys. If that many. & they probably came to Pencey that way”

pencey nice play on thinking and story; wanna bet the 2 guys were jc & the buddha?

the only novel of j.d. salinger zen monk: love-infused neti neti / consciousness revealing