240914 What I learned in my studies this morning 4*

Today's Meditation(s):

Tao Te Ching, 2, Gia-fu Feng and Jane English

The ten thousand things. My favorite phrase from the Tao Te Ching.  It's all the distractions, all the real yet unimportant reality we deal with daily. Nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.

The surface contradictions distract me from seeing deeper reality. The essential connection between even so disparate parts, without which neither would exist.