Let Your Body Be Still

2,000 year-old bonsai on Huashan Mountain in China. Photo by the author.

56. Let Your Body Be Still

If you know, you don’t speak.
If you speak, you don’t know.

Close your mouth;
Turn your ears inward.
Soften your sharp edges.
Untangle the knots in your belly.

Allow your eyes to receive,
Let your body sit still.
Unite into one whole.

From the Alchemist’s Tao Te Ching:
Transforming Your Lead into Gold
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