The Pure Mountain Path

The whole world recognizes the beautiful as the beautiful, yet this is only the ugly;
the whole world recognizes the good as the good, yet this is only the bad.

Thus something comes from nothing and nothing comes from something;
The difficult and the easy complement each other;
The long and the short are brothers;
The high and the low are sisters;
Note and sound are in harmony with each other;
Before and after follow each other.

There is no separation of yin and yang but in the mind. All flows together, some more apparent than others. All one , always.

A Master lived the simplest kind of life in a small non-descript hut at the foot of a mountain. One evening, while he was away, a thief sneaked into the hut only to find there was nothing in worth taking. The Master returned and found him. “You have come a long way to visit me,” he told the thief, and you should not return empty handed. Please take my clothes as a gift.” The thief was bewildered, but he took the clothes and ran away. The Master sat down naked, watching the moon. “Poor fellow,” he mused, ” I wish I could give him this beautiful moon.”