21.9.12

21.09.12 1122h


Finished memorizing the Tao Te Ching today.  After four years.  Ranging from a day in which i memorized five vignettes (of the eighty-one) to a year in which i memorized and recited none.  Now the text is in me and i have to figure out what to do with it inside me.  Rather, i listen to its whispers, its soft suggestions.  Likely some refining, some audio play/experimentation, and possibly a movement toward the Chinese (its 5,000 characters instead of the English's 10,000 words).

In the meantime, the text has begun oozing surreptitiously and explicitly into my life.

To devote a life to the ingestion and expulsion, absorption and incarnation, of a text.

That is all.

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