My Dao De Jing translation from the Chinese text of Wang Bi

My Tumblr Blog: The Dao of Having No Head (Poems, Quotations, Digital Photo Art)

My verses on Headless Dao and Zen

Introduction     Returning     Views and Values     Hundun     The Wheel    

Half and Half     The Song of Presence    

The Book of Dao     Verses 1 to 37     The Book of De     Verses 38 to 81

Headless Tao, 2000     This is the original version and commentary.

Rhyme and Reason by Jim Clatfelter


Just what is the Dao?
It is yin on my shoulders
And yang in my arms.

Look in and see the yin.
Look out and see the yang.
Look in and out and see the Dao,
And now you see the whole shebang.