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Posted by Butch on 1/25/2008, 12:31 pm, in reply to "Re: Enlightenment without love is not enlightenment."
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: True love, love that is whole,
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: Daodejing 67 has as first treasure
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: which includes this love...
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: in ddj 16 ming2
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: enlightment is defined as the feature of
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: the ability to verify the complement
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: the coming together
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: Laozi Daodejing
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: Daodejing 25 defines Dao
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wulf,
I can substitute the word "integration" for the word "love". We see as through a glass darkly, a mirror clouded with thoughts of this or that, for we are fragmented in our thinking. Thus I cultivate not to make what is by nature already whole, but to help me realize what is. From the Great Fragmentation I have consciously entered into the path of the Great Integration. I have started from where I consciously am. In my dream world of thoughts. I have been seduced by insight into intercourse with the watercourse way of the Tao. The way of love. The way of unity within diversity. Integration. One taste of the water and now no other water will do. The sacred well I drink from I call Love. A well dug into the same great underground river of spirit as all other sacred wells have been dug, just a different name for that which is beyond naming. To meditate is to dig one's own sacred well. The meditation that leads to integration. Other types of meditation do not have sway over me. I am not a martial artist. I am an artist of life. I do what is necessary. I am a Samurai of Love. I will not be sidetracked by this or that, not for long. One flash of lightning on the darkest of nights has struck me in the heart and I have been enlightened. There is no going back to the dark of the conditioned mind. Mine is not a tribal religion. It is whole. It is the Love/Religion. I have found nothing else to be worthy of my time or attention. I have seen the light. Love is the underlying unity of existence. It flows between this and that along the grain of reality. The master butcher knows as much. There is no rank where the whole is concerned. To know the whole in one thing is to know the whole. To be conscious in one thing is to be conscious of the whole. Awaken. And so Lazarus laughed.
The Tao is Love.
Butch
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"The Tao is basically utterly open. Utter openeness has no substance. It ends in endlessness, begins in beginninglessnes".
-Li Daoqun
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