uncarved love

There is pure potential found within an uncarved block. Pu or uncarved block is a principle of Taosim and is a metaphor for wu wei or the ability to know when to act and when not to act.

Take an opportunity to explore the uncarved block (or the blank screen) and to share…(more) whatever emerges as we carve away. Stories, thoughts, discussions, texts, ideas, poetry and other writing are welcome.

This is not a group to discuss Taoist texts in an academic way, necessarily, but to go beyond to express your own way through this lovely universe we find ourselves in – how you are the uncarved block, how happiness, peace and stillness touch your life, and what you are doing to reveal your inner potential and leave nothing undone each day. If you have not read any Taoist/ Daoist texts – I recommend beginning with the Dao De Jing/ Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu and Chuang Tzu

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The way never acts yet nothing is left undone.

Should lords and princes be able to hold fast to it,

The myriad creatures will be transformed of their own accord.

After they are transformed, should desire raise its head,

I shall press it down with the weight of the nameless uncarved block.

The nameless uncarved block

Is but freedom from desire,

And if I cease to desire and remain still,

The empire will be at peace of its own accord.

~ Tao Te Ching, chapter 37

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walk with peace

Uncarved Block

Thank you LeighAnne for your creative writing the past few years… continue

Kathy