Dao

The third stanza seems particularly interesting to me. What I think of is a division I've observed before; sometimes it seems that to truly understand things as they are, one must be objective or even not a being (which is impossible), since all of our emotions, desires, etc. act as filters on our perception of what truly is. Something as simple as walking in the woods and seeing all the trees around you as "nature" and "relaxing" and the whole history of our ideas of what a forest is rather than as, here are these trees these fungi etc. But the emotions, desires, subjective observers, are also part of what exists. What it's like to be a human being shot through with emotion is one part of the world, and not necessarily a part you could understand as our mythical objective observer. At least, this is one way I interpret the "mystery/manifestation" distinction.