Welcome in to the Subconscious Mind Mastery podcast. Thomas Miller on our Sunday series here, and I'm glad you're here. We're going to talk about returning today. Oh, I'll explain. Before we do that, though, I just feel, I don't know, feel compelled to do this. Some of you will know what I'm talking about here, but Michael O'Sullivan,

this is dedicated to you, buddy. I've had something on my mind as we've been combing through.

We're going to build on the brick that we laid last Sunday about the Dow De Ching, because

there were some things in there that captivated me and one of them primarily.

It was just a line in chapter 16 that we read last week. We'll read it again. But it talked about

returning. That concept of returning is what captivated me. So I thought we could drill down on

this and eventually we're going to lead up to a returning meditation at the end.

These passages of the Tao De Ching that I've been reading are really touching my soul. Oh my goodness,

this ancient wisdom 400 years before Christ is incredible. So this is an interpretation of chapter 16 that I think speaks so well. We read some of it last week. We'll go further with it this week. So chapter 16 from the Tao Te Ching, empty yourself of everything. Let the mind rest at peace.

The 10,000 things rise and fall while the self watches their return.

There's the return.

In Taoism, the 10,000 things basically refers to all of manifest existence, if you will. There are several different tangents of application of the 10,000 things, but basically you just think of everything that

exists in our created reality. So thinking about this, the 10,000 things rise and fall while the self, our point of observation,

watches their return.

They grow and flourish, and then return to the source.

Returning to the source is stillness, which is the way of nature.

The way of nature is unchanging.

That return is the cycle of life. We mentioned this last week. It's being born and it's dying and it's returning. And then if you believe in that, we return again. The Taoists certainly believe that.

So even right there, everything,

we say everything is returning, returning to flesh, returning to source. Two chapters back in 14, from above, it is not bright, from below it is not dark. An unbroken thread beyond description.

It returns to nothingness.

There's the return again.

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