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Tao Te Ching: Verse 1 Traditional Cache

A cache by JMB Message this owner
Hidden : 3/15/2009
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
2 out of 5

Size: Size:   regular (regular)

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Geocache Description:

Cache is a small/medium lock and lock. Some minor elevation changes along the way with light bushwhacking near the cache. Cache should be an easy find.

As I've been studying the Tao Te Ching, written more than 2500 years ago by Lao Tzu, it seems to be telling me to get back into nature. There are a lot of metaphors and parallels to nature in many of the verses. I figured this would be a great time for me to get back out there and hide more caches. In nature. Where they belong.

Verse One

The name that can be named is not the eternal name.

The nameless is the beginning of heaven and earth.

The name is the mother of the ten thousand things.

Send your desires away and you will see the mystery.

Be filled with desire

and you will see only the manifestation.

As these two come forth they differ in name.

Yet at their source they are the same.

This source is called a mystery.

Darkness within darkness,

the gateway to all mystery.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

va gehpx bs snyyra naq ebggvat.

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
-------------------------
N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)