THE PASSION OF THE TAO, song lyrics/Words by Joel Sattler

Music by Johann Sebastian Bach, from The St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244

Some call it the Great Mother
From whence all things do come
Although the stream be dry as death
Someday the rains will run

In darkest yin there is a yang
In yang there is a yin
The journey of a thousand miles
A single step begins

They know who do not speak of it
They speak who do not know
The Tao is always nameless
From it all things do grow

Returning love for hatred
This is the greatest good
Let Tao reign over the earth
Not be misunderstood

Because all life is water
Time is an endless flow
The Tao is like an ocean
To which all things must go

Though 30 spokes surround the hub
The center empty is
The truth belongs to everyone
Not mine nor yours nor his

The small is not too little
The large is not too great
No limit to dimension
When we look into fate

Become the eternal river
Become again a child
Down valleys to the white blue sea
The tranquil from the wild

Before there was the Tao
Then all things were as one
The Tao it does nothing
Yet nothing's left undone

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