The Tao of Relationships: A Balancing of Man and Woman
By Ray Grigg
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The balancing of man and woman is not just their coming together, but their ability to stay separate. Love, like the Tao, cannot be limited by time or words. They are a process, a way of life, a balance. They move from the yin and yang of male/female to the mystical wholeness of the Tao. This thought-provoking, intuitive, and inspiring volume is for all lovers to learn from and enjoy.
Ray Grigg
Ray Grigg is the author of six internationally sold books on Taoism and Zen, The Tao of Relationships, The Tao of Being, The Tao of Sailing, Zen Brushpoems, The Tao of Zen, The New Lao Tzu and has been a serious student of Eastern Philosophy for more than 45 years. Prior to writing professionally since 1985, he was a teacher in senior secondary schools of British Columbia, teaching principally English and English literary history but also designing and teaching courses in fine arts, cultural history and comparative world religions. Besides writing books, he contributes a weekly environmental column, Shades of Green, to a Vancouver Island newspaper and also interviews for a local TV channel. He is a former director on the Advisory Council for The Centre For Studies in Religion and Society at the University of Victoria in British Columbia. He continues to give occasional presentations and workshops on Taoism and Zen. His latest interest, following travel, photography, Eastern philosophy, design and sailing, is kayaking. He lives with his wife, a classical musician, in a self-built home on ten acres of forested land on Quadra Island, British Columbia, Canada. A large organic garden and orchard supply much of their food needs. Their pets are the wild birds and animals that share their property.
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The Tao of Relationships - Ray Grigg
The Titles of the Chapters
Introduction
The Tao
1. Practicing for Now
2. Beyond Measure
3. Just Doing
4. By Remaining Still
5. The Great Allowing
6. The Boundless Room
7. To Keep the Bond
8. Have Each Other As If
9. Becomes From Within
10. Not a Mystery
11. Without
12. Foolish Play
13. The Place to Begin
14. The Greatness of Simple
15. Attend to the Ordinary
16. Balance the Universe
17. Thoughts and Questions
18. Because of Our Changing
19. Finding is Recognizing
20. And Its Passing
21. With the Spoken Question
22. So Obvious
23. The Journey to the Beginning
24. The Silent Ground
25. Practice Humility
26. Words Are Easy
27. To Possess the Sky
28. Effortless As Birth and Death
29. Found by a Way
30. Meeting Like Water
31. Having Been for So Long
32. To Find the Tao
33. Every Is
34. Beneath Each Knowing
35. The Tao’s Way
Man / Woman
36. Close to the Great Mother
37. Both Halves of Now
38. The Fulfillment of Each
39. By Unknowing
40. Undivided Silence
41. Foolish Seriousness
42. The Simple and Great
43. The Other’s Hidden Centre
44. Only As Itself
45. Embraced By Emptiness
46. Within Her Holding
47. Attached By Each Other
48. The Trunk and Roots of Words
49. The Uncommon Man
50. Apprenticeships
51. More Easily Found
52. The Sage’s Way
53. The One That Is Both
54. Wholeness Again
55. That Each May Be Greater
56. Enter the Between
57. When There is the Tao
58. But Silently Laugh
59. The Primal is Tamed
60. Primal Dark
61. Man’s Death in Woman
62. Is-Not Is As Great As Is
63. Serious Riddle
64. Each Body’s Other Body
65. The Tao Is Like Nothing
66. Without Words
67. Broad Harmony
68. Silently Certain
69. Letting Go
70. If Man Wanted Only Light
71. From Easiness With the Ordinary
72. Young Lovers’ Riddles
Separateness / Togetherness
73. Arises From Itself
74. With Beginning and End Clear
75. Easy Silence
76. Empty and Full
77. Hiding
78. In the Stillness of Right Time
79. Separate Without Separateness
80. Most Together
81. One Thing Comes from Another
82. Crooked And Round
83. Right Mind
84. In Each Two
85. Third Mind
86. Seed And Soil
87. Finding
88. The Obvious That Is the Secret
89. One-Legged Mind
90. Secret Meeting Secret
91. Rely On the Effortless
92. To Be Within Both
93. To Lose and Find Both
94. Finding Its Own Course
95. As Easy As Being Found
96. Deep Meeting
97. Quite Enough
98. With No Effort
99. With Mind Wide Open
100. Between Thoughts
Hardness / Softness
101. Between Birth and Death
102. Winning and Losing
103. Because of Their Softening
104. Deep Quiet
105. The Wisdom In Everything
106. Softening
107. To Be Used
108. Between Hardness and Softness
109. The Softness of Beginning
110. Ocean Womb
111. Different Equals
112. Through His Hardness
113. Through Her Softness
114. Hardness Is the Burden
115. By Emptying
116. Leading From Behind
117. Find Awe
118. Both Hardness and Softness
119. Beyond Every Stone
120. Neither Stone nor Water
121. Be Without Purpose
Changing / Unchanging
122. Let the Changing Change
123. In Its Proper Time
124. Ever Becoming
125. The Downward Way
126. Trust the Returning
127. Each Time Has
128. A Special Kind of Keeping
129. In the Very Centre of Now
130. Know Like Water
131. Also Be River
132. Become Changing
133. Through Is Between
134. The Riddle Called Thinking
Finding / Losing
135. Lose and Find
136. Between One and Other
137. Knowing Deepens
138. Into Deeper Unknown
139. The Moment of Finding
140. Another Knowing
141. Losing and Finding
142. The Lost and Found Way
143. Lost in Each Other
144. Within Between
Giving / Receiving
145. Find Without Taking
146. Full Of Emptiness
147. Give Gently
148. A Kind Of Giving
149. Into One Disappears
150. Outside That is Inside
151. To Receive
152. The Vitality Of Riddles
153. Giving and Receiving
154. Some Great Matter
Fullness / Emptiness
155. Find What Is Not
156. Remember Emptiness
157. Begin By Emptying
158. All the Emptying Of River
159. Empty Into Emptiness
160. What Is and What Is Not
161. Is and Is-Not
162. Fullness Carrying Emptiness
163. Fullness Desires
164. Because There Is Emptiness
165. Woman’s Emptiness
166. Always Waiting
167. Surrounding The Emptiness
168. Body of Earth
169. Accept the Breathing
170. Like the Breathing Tao
171. In Such a Meeting
172. The Humility of Knowing
173. Only the Passing Stays
174. The Lover’s Balance
175. More Than Greatest
176. The Tao’s Breath
177. Forbidden Yet Promised
178. In an Endless Beginning
179. Waiting Emptiness
180. Its Own Other Body
Union
181. So Much Is Found
182. Without Question
183. From Moment To Moment
184. With the Readiness Of Knowing
185. Please the Primal Play
186. All the Ancient Steps
187. Only Body Knows
188. Bodies Understand the Tao
189. Beyond Union
190. Undoing Different
191. Deep Within Living Everything
192. Lovers Find What Sages Seek
193. Passing and Becoming
194. Earth Breathes Itself
195. The Need of Each
196. Full Range
197. Taking the River’s Time
198. A Beginning of the Beginning
199. Mere Body
200. Mind Follows Body’s Thinking
201. Let Body Decide
202. Eyes Distant and Fresh
203. Its Own Returning Time
204. By Body’s Doing
205. The Simple and Obvious
206. Both Feet Must Dance
207. A Special Stillness
208. The Effortless Effort
209. Without Man and Woman
210. Amazing Now
211. Each Time’s Return
212. The Other Half of Wholeness
INTRODUCTION
This book is about love but love is never mentioned or defined. Why? Because words are only metaphor. The experience they create is vicarious. Words obstruct understanding by creating the illusion of understanding; they confine and limit with the deception that the mystery has been captured. Words only represent the authentic. When there is naming, the name is mistaken for what has been named. Sages have always known this. They understand names. And lovers are sages.
Lovers live love. They are in it like rain is in raining and smiles are in smiling. But they cannot explain what it is because they are it. The