Still Falling

Verse 18

When the great Tao is abandoned
charity and righteousness appear.
When intellectualism arises,
hypocrisy is close behind.

When there is strife in the family unit,
people talk about 'brotherly love'.

When the country falls into chaos
politicians talk about 'patriotism'.
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I have carried this card around me for several days now. And Nada, Nothing is coming up for me with this. Zero.

I wonder what this means. Certainly not that the words don't have any meaning for me; in fact it's probably just the opposite.

Thinking about it.

Ah, I believe that this is what is happening: I still haven't finished processing what I need to focus on from the past couple of verses. Every day I'm still falling off cliffs and tumbling through alternative worlds, with new and often surprising understandings arising. I think that I need to stay with this process and let it continue to flow and not go on to the next task until at some level this one is complete.

So I'm off to don my hard hat, as I have a sense that there are more cliffs on the horizon.