Let Earth nourish you into life.
Let wood stoke the flames of your spirit
Let fire turn matter into metal
True gold is born out of the hottest flame.
Let water turn your heart a vibrant emerald
The life force that is most humbly malleable
But also with such qualities
Emerge the strongest.
Let go and flow
Like water like the Dao.
Let not your soul calcify
To allow the gentle bends of the river of Dao.
And when it all burns down
Remember that these ashes shall nourish the soil of your soul again
And one day you will rise again
As inevitably as the tree that shall grow from the seeds that are sowed.
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木生火生土生金生水
ren fa di (人法地) 〰️ man follows the ways of Earth
di fa tian (地法天) 〰️ Earth follows the ways of Heaven
tian fa dao (天法道) 〰️ Heaven follows the ways of Tao
dao fa zi ran (道法自然) 〰️ Tao follows its own ways as its inherent nature.
~ Tao Te Ching, Lao Tzu
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In the seven-week Circle starting in November, we shall be journeying upon the Way with a deeper understanding of the 5 elements through a true sense of the expression, "as above, so below". Nothing is separate. All leads back to the One － the Dao. This perspective may seem alien in today's highly dissected and overanalytical state of the world, but perhaps this returning to the Dao is therefore more needed now than ever.
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