eyes wide open

eyes wide open

Intertwine the world with yourself

Let the flow of the waves roll you over

And you will never hit the rocky shore

If you listen to the whispers of the trees

If you let your mind fly like a bird

If you open your heart to the world

You will see life with raw eyes

You will gain a vision of appreciation

Or maybe a vision of disturbance

Let the calm air of nature allow you to be free

Let it rejuvenate and reset your mind

Take in a cool, blissful breeze and let it dissolve into your lungs

Awareness is a word of gold

It gives understanding

And receives importance

The Choice

There are two paths you can take

Both paved,

And beautiful

You stand in front of both

They are captivating

Which one will you take?

Murmurs and voices are yelled

Telling you to take one path

“This is what you need”

“This is the easy way out”

Judges and glares are exchanged

The next path is extremely difficult and dangerous

But its exquisite,

Filled with exotic flowers and fruits

This one is calling you

Your heart is urging you to follow

Smell the air,

The flowers,

Taste the fruit

Which one will you take?

Happiness and difficulty,

Or the struggle of not fitting in,

To the small path society is telling you to follow?

Close

We strive for happiness,

running as fast as we can to get there.

Sprinting and sprinting,

running in circles.

Not succeeding to find it.

Yet happiness is not as far as it is deceived.

It is close to our hearts.

Close to our soul.

It is within the oceans of our eyes.

It is within the fire of our hearts.

It is within the melody of our minds.

If you become one with our Mother,

one with yourself,

Taoism will take your hand and show you the way,

to happiness,

to peace with yourself.

And you’ll realize that happiness,

that the Tao,

was right behind you the whole time.

A Very Insightful Poem

Woah dude this is deep.

Two sides of the same coin.

Life and death.

Light and darkness.

Two sides of everything.

What is everything? I don’t know.

It’s unnamable, don’t worry,

But I’ll call it the Tao Te Ching.

It’s intentionally vague, but

I don’t really care.

I invented this religion

So that bureaucrats

Would stay in their place.  

The Balance of Life

The Balance of Life
Haley Grant

The sun gleaming bright onto the water,

The still, unwavering stream,

Charged full of light

Glowing and bouncing off the reflection

Just like your heart softly beats,

Clenching in and out to the rhythm,

Reflecting your mood or feelings,

Wavering, minute by minute

We are able to control the uncontrollable,

We can calm down our doubled heartbeat to a slow putter,

or speed it up with excitement

Two feet, one line, one foot in front of the other

Balance beam, solid white line,

distractions a blur as your focus is crystal clear,

Balance is key

The Flow of Tao

Nothing led to something
This something lead to chaos
Chaos led to order

The untamable is the non-conceptual
It is the natural order of the universe
Names are just manifestations

Feel but do not describe

Embrace the Tao blindly
Follow the flow of the universe

To be wise you must be a fool
To feel the Tao you must be empty
To do you must not do

Be like a drop in the ocean
Do not control the flow
Follow it

The Balance

The balance is what ensures day in and out,

the combination of the light and the dark

is what proves we can be whole

It that has no real name

It that is the essence of everything

It that is the mother of the universe,

the origin of all things

The Tao is what it is referred to by most,

it’s what forms the balance between the yin and yang

The white and black

The male and female

Opposites in every way,

Yet interconnected throughout,

The Tao was the beginning

And it is the destruction of the Tao that will be the end

Balance of Two

Inside and out

Through and through

The tao permeates through old and new

A sense of being

But still letting live

Relent desires and you’ll begin

Begin the journey

To comprehend

The world consists of a blend

Black and White

Yin and Yang

Nothing is all the same

We are the product of balance

Our skin the canvas of the two

The balance of yin and yang that makes us me and you

The Everywhere Tao

What is the Tau, if not anything.

A dark night, beneath a blazing day.

A wet ocean, soaking under dry land.

A dead space, floating above a lively world.

But we cannot see the Tau.

For it is all around us.

A candle, fighting to stay lit.

A leaf, hanging on for the last time.

A flower, closing for the winter.

Tau is the binding of all things.

The binding of living and dead.

An early frost.

A birth of a life.

A morning rainbow.

The Tau always surrounds us

Yet it is never seen.

The beginning of life,

And the ending of death.