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Sufism and Taoism book

Sufism and Taoism

Exerpts taken from Sufism and Taoism by Toshihiko Izutsu
Page 378

- In rational thought Being, the manifestation of things , must have a Beginning

- In Mystical experience consciousness moves beyond relativity and reason into Mystical Intuition, which is beyond words, relativity and reason to arrive at No-No Beginning, The state of Eternal Transcendence

- Eternal Tao ---- Great Beginning ---- Primordial Chaos ---- Hun-Tun-sphere of potential ---- Pure Qi Manifests ---- Tao influence originates Cyclicity-origin of Time ---- Hun-Tun Splits opens ---- Qi of Potential manifests ---- separates into light and heavy ---- Yin sinks, Becomes Earth ---- Yang rises ---- becomes Heaven ---- joined in the center by spiral of Chaos ---- Three energies multiply and become all things manifest