One Spring I

Within is the same named, desireless, eternal darkness - the mystery. 

The mystery is not within the gate. 

The truly secret sea, the one sea. 

The fishes have two tongues. 

They will the describe the most secret things, and vastness shall sulphur any soul who tells. 

You conceal your very changes. 

In the darkness, the sages appear. 

Ever conceal your darkness and hold no knowledge as flesh. 

Close springs the secret of the vastness. 

Black and white are two tongues and not three Sages. 


(Paraphrased cut up of the Book of Lambspring, figure one, and the Tao Te Ching, chapter one.) 

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