This is the third in a series of Dharma Talks being posted here, from a retreat held in 2017 entitled Realizing the Way  with the Great Woods Zen community in North Carolina, working with/from the first chapter of the Daodejing:

The  way that becomes a way
is not the Immortal Way
the name that becomes a name
is not the Immortal Name
no-name is the maiden of Heaven and Earth
name is the mother of all things
thus in innocence we see the beginning
in passion we see the end
two different names
for one and the same
the one we call dark
the dark beyond dark
the door to all beginnings

(Red Pine, trans)

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