Full Question:
I heard in a lecture that Tao is everywhere, inside everything as well as outside everything. Does that mean that I will be with Tao after liberation? Does Enlightenment mean meeting Tao?
It is not in or outside of something. It cannot be inside or outside of itself.
You believe that you are a you seeking liberation from something that as a consequence will then be with Tao and meeting Tao.
Yet, if Tao is inside and outside of all things, this implies that all things are somehow identified as being themselves, with another thing called Tao being within. And the metaphor of a drop of water being of the sea is a little like this.
The drop never exists. It does not become. Only the ocean… but what could name it other than itself?
There are no marks and no signs in Being.
Being is not revealed through enlightenment. Being is always revealed but only to itself. What you think of as you is always seeing. Nothing is missed. Nothing is found.
If you seek Enlightenment, you put it before yourself and it comes first and you follow second. If you seek Tao, you place Tao before you and when you meet, you believe you have just met.
There is no before or after. The previous to Something is not in time. The following of Something is not in seeing.
It is the first and last. The in and out. The what meets and the what is met.
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