Does anyone know anything about a Taoist wedding ceremony?
Even though my husband and I are not religious, we had a Tibetan bell ceremony during our wedding. We closed and eyes, our officiant said some calming words, then rang the bell. It was very cool and helped us focus. He also read this: Stephen Mitchell, “The Tao of Marriage” “Go deeper than love,” D.H. Lawrence wrote, “for the soul has greater depths.” The willingness to go deeper than love itself is a kind of love, a desire to meet the beloved beyond desire, in the darkness where there is no self, no other. For this meeting, a man and a woman must be whole enough in themselves to step out of themselves, into a place of mutual transformation. They are able to surrender everything they know, everything they love, with the abandon that a Master has at the hour of death. Painful or ecstatic, such transformation requires a fundamental trust. “Into your hands I commit my spirit.” “A man and a woman who enter this depth of intimacy find themselves standing in the garden where Adam and Eve sto
