Daodejing Part Ten

LYRICS: Can you hold your soul and breath as one, Guide the spirit, let it run? Hun and Po within your chest, Quiet heart that finds its rest. Like a child without a fear, Still the mind till all is clear. Breathe in the One… Breathe out the form… Soft as the dark before the dawn. What rises, falls — What stays, is none… Return, return… to the One. Wash the mirror of the heart, See the whole in every part. Let your knowing fade to dust, Let your actions flow from trust. Give, but do not claim the deed — Serve the world without the need. Breathe in the One… Breathe out the form… Soft as the dark before the dawn. What rises, falls — What stays, is none… Return, return… to the One. Open wide the gate of air, Subtle breath you scarcely share. Be the mother, soft and still, Hold to nothing, bend to will. Light that spreads to every side, Seen by none — yet magnified. Breathe in the One… Breathe out the form… Soft as the dark before the dawn. What rises, falls — What stays, is none… Return, return… to the One. Breathe in the One… Breathe out the dawn… Nothing to lose, nothing to own. Empty and full… Silent and strong… Return, return… to where you have always belonged. DAODEJING PART TEN: When the intelligent and animal souls are held together in one embrace, they can be kept from separating. When one gives undivided attention to the breath, and brings it to the utmost degree of pliancy, he can become as a babe. When he has cleansed away the most mysterious sights, he can become without a flaw. In loving the people and ruling the state, cannot he proceed without any action? In the opening and shutting of his gates of heaven, cannot he do so as a female bird? While his intelligence reaches in every direction, cannot he be without knowledge? Produces and nourishes them; it produces them and does not claim them as its own; it does all, and yet does not boast of it; it presides over all, and yet does not control them. This is what is called "The mysterious Quality"