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The Passage of a Few People Through a Rather Brief Moment in Time #59 - Ride Te Ching

08.11.10

One or more persons during a certain period drop their usual motives for movement
and action, their relations, their work and leisure activities, and let themselves be
drawn by the attractions of the terrain and the encounters they find there.

It's a bike ride.

Started by user nathansnider and user theroyalacademy.

It meets every Wednesday at 8:30pm
at California Donuts #21.
We ride at 9pm.
We'll endeavor to return before the last red line trains (around midnight).

On this bike ride, you might expect:
- full moon picnics
- inconvenient passageways
- "cover" versions of other people's rides, performed with amateurish enthusiasm
- amateurish enthusiasm
- disorientation
- reorientation
- pool halls
- bowling alleys
- karaoke
- geocaching
- oblique strategies
- Oulipian constraints
- traffic median tea parties
- rivers that no longer exist
- smell tourism
- Couchwick v2.0

Furthermore:
- usually 20-30 miles
- a medium pace
- few stops, short stops
- but we're not in a rush; we don't need to run every light
- victory donuts!

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This week:

Ride Te Ching


We join spokes together in a wheel,
but it is the center hole
that makes the bicycle move.

We shape clay into a pot,
but it is the emptiness inside
that holds whatever we want.

We hammer wood for a house,
but it is the inner space
that makes it livable.

We work with being,
but non-being is what we use.

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Rushing into action, you fail.
Trying to grasp things, you lose them.
Forcing a project to completion,
you ruin what was almost ripe.

Therefore the Rider takes action
by letting things take their course.
She remains as calm
at the end as at the beginning.
She has nothing,
thus has nothing to lose.
What she desires is non-desire;
what she learns is to unlearn.
She cares about nothing but the Ride.
Thus she can care for all things.

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By climbing what is large
we remember we are small.
We stay close
but we see our land as new.
Since before time and space were,
the Ride has been.
It is beyond is and is not.
How do we know this is true?
We look inside ourselves and see.

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http://www.TheRoyalAcademy.org/Passage

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Through silence, we speak






























































































































Certain shifting angles,
certain receding perspectives.
 



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