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TAOIST Poems

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A Senryu Tale of Genji — Karl Constantine FOLKES	A senryu poem About Prince Minamoto, The renown Genji. His life and journey In Japan’s Heian period In Old Kyoto. A Golden Era. The eleventh...	2,728 views Rate it
The Fathomless Essence of the Noumenon — Karl Constantine FOLKES	Out of Many — One. Center and Periphery. Singularity. The Essence of Noumenon. The Non-perceivable Source. Subject and Object. Objective...	850 views Rate it
Wisdom of DAO — Karl Constantine FOLKES	Wisdom of DAO: Contraction is addition and not subtraction. Weakness in its full balance defeats the hubris of strength. Read now from DAO. Read...	617 views Rate it
Laozi’s Dao De Jing — Karl Constantine FOLKES	[Dao is The Way. path to the awakening of our true nature; the opposites united, In harmony and balance.] Master Laozi, ‘Philosopher of Ages,’ ...	585 views Rate it
The All is the Singular — Karl Constantine FOLKES	Nature is Oneness. That governs plurality. Singularity. Is how it is referred to. With respect to all matter. All space and all time. Make up all...	577 views Rate it
The Co-Existence of Two Strange Bedfellows — Karl Constantine FOLKES	This is a paradoxical existential story. As old as Time, as new as the breaking dawn. About two distempered relatives. Seemingly different, yet oh so...	575 views Rate it
DAO is Everywhere — Karl Constantine FOLKES	Away from Center we move to periphery within the circle. We cannot escape DAO, since DAO is...	531 views Rate it
Waka Poetry Chiming — Karl Constantine FOLKES	Voices chanting sutras, Hymnic lyrical sutras. Other voices weaving, Weaving Kama sutras. Cherry blossoms ripening, Youthful eyes — delighting. ...	435 views Rate it
Wisdom of TAO Te Ching — Karl Constantine FOLKES	THEME of TAO : “The emptiness of the circle ⭕️ is the fullness of its expression.” Use of languages, a lexicon artifact, with syntactic rules, ...	416 views Rate it
Genji’s Tragedy of Distraction — Karl Constantine FOLKES	The tale of Genji concerns the all that he lost; all his love interests, all his ten thousand lovers. All imaging his mother. The tale of DAO ...	382 views Rate it
The Thought That Lingers: Part Five — Karl Constantine FOLKES	The thought that lingers perpetually, is quest of man to know himself: the ontology of his beginnings; of his descent and his ascent; of his being...	379 views Rate it
Love and Submission — Karl Constantine FOLKES	Marriage union is union of spirit. The union of two, in Holy Communion, sanctified by the spirit. It is a binding both holy and secular: two...	371 views Rate it
The Thought That Lingers: Part Four — Karl Constantine FOLKES	The thought that lingers will not rest. Nor dare it ever sleep from constant dread; from constant fear of never ever waking up from its unknown...	361 views Rate it
The Thought That Lingers: Part Three — Karl Constantine FOLKES	To those who course the netherworld, with Bardo trust and faithfulness, a measured means of recompense, must dutifully be prescribed for this alembic...	344 views Rate it
The Mystery of TAO — Karl Constantine FOLKES	Great Ouroboros. Cycle of Life, Death, Rebirth. A Celebration. The Feast of The LORD’s Supper. The Alpha and...	333 views Rate it
DAO Affirms Wholeness — Karl Constantine FOLKES	Unmanifest DAO affirms the truth that wholeness is of oneness. Ten thousand things just manifest the nature of that Oneness. Made of flesh that has...	323 views Rate it
Archetypal DAO — Karl Constantine FOLKES	DAO, as archetype, is experienced by us, in form, as...	218 views Rate it
The DAO of Zero — Karl Constantine FOLKES	Zero is like DAO Empty yet full Full in its emptiness A balance to all numbers. The art of numbers Holding ancient mysteries Elegant in...	207 views Rate it
The TAO of Direction — Karl Constantine FOLKES	West embraces East, as a child to a teacher; each to the other. The path to TAO is the path of completion; which leads to wholeness. East...	206 views Rate it
My Doe Doe Sweetheart — Karl Constantine FOLKES	A Burmese princess, is she, my “Doe Doe” sweetheart; my partner of life. With maiden name PU, she manifests the DAO; reflecting it as mirror. By...	173 views Rate it
Taoist Mystery — Karl Constantine FOLKES	A thought engendered. The Life of Death is deathless. TAOIST...	164 views Rate it
Ode to Ting Chiao — Karl Constantine FOLKES	Take the path where the river flows. Immerse yourself in its softness. Nurture that which bends without breaking. Glide with the wind; sail...	144 views Rate it
DAO: Art of The Middle Way — Karl Constantine FOLKES	Posit of DAO: Opposites resolution. The Middle Way course. Art of homeostasis. For balance and...	65 views Rate it
The DAO of Fixity and Movement — Karl Constantine FOLKES	Fixity and movement are akin to time and space; energy kinetic and potential. Now resting, now acting, The coupling of time and space, in infinite...	63 views Rate it
The Silent Wisdom of DAO — Karl Constantine FOLKES	Why quote from wisdom if we do not apply it in our daily lives. What is described as DAO is beyond what is uttered. We lead by practice. DAO...	50 views Rate it