含德之厚,比於赤子 “He who is full of the power of virtue is like a newborn” (Daodejing, Chapter 55)
We are born transparent. Then the adult world arrives with its texts: what is permissible, what is necessary, what one should be. Word by word, it covers us with interpretations and superfluous texts, until the face turns into a page and the consciousness into stone.
The seam on the head shows that the consciousness is “sewn up” and the adult world has interfered with the very essence. The hieroglyphs on the face function as conventions, rules, and other people’s texts that cover a person until they begin to take them as their own.
Osho spoke of this as the main drama of humanity: society makes us hard so that we can survive, and we forget that survival was not meant to be for the sake of hardness.
A great man is one who has not lost the heart of a child” (Mencius, 4B12)
Meditation in this sense is not a technique, but a return: to peel away the layer of text and see that beneath it, the child still looks out, with a pure, benevolent, and undemanding consciousness.
To return to the state of a child” (Dao De Jing, Chapter 28)
This collection is about how we have become overgrown with separations, and about how purity has not been lost, but only covered up. Each work is an awakening and a return to the roots.
“Return to the state of a child” (Dao De Jing, Chapter 28)
