Peter Patrick Barreda, Guest
Waking Times
Eyes look but cannot see it.
Ears listen but cannot hear it.
Hands grasp but cannot touch it.
Beyond the senses lies the great Unity—
invisible, inaudible, intangible.
—Tao Te Ching
To understand the soul of the mandala is to gaze into the heart of truth and see the essence of reality. That truth is an intricate landscape of ebb and flow, light and dark, yin and yang—it is the Tao. The Tao as described by the Chinese since ancient days is the ungraspable essence of reality that flows on, inexorably, regardless of our own worries and concerns. The Tao Te Ching begins:
“The path that can be walked is not the eternal path.”
