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Posted by Butch on 1/26/2008, 11:26 pm, in reply to "Re: Enlightenment without love is not enlightenment."
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: An acorn is a seed that contains the
: potential of becoming a great Oak. And so it
: is with man.
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: We are a microcosm of the macrocosm. All
: distinctions, all stages, are provisional.
: We are a part of that which has no parts.
: The acorn is not separate from the Oak, nor
: are we separate from the Tao.
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: Enlightenment is eternal. It is neither
: sudden nor gradual. We were never born and
: we will never die.
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: Butch
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: I would say that growing into an oak is one
: of many potential paths for the acorn. This
: doesn't separate it from Tao.
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: Materially we are eternal. The rest is up to
: us. Enlightenment is like a brodcast
: frequency. We tune in or tune out.
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Chris,
There is a certain "Way" of Nature. It is inherent within an acorn that there is an Oak waiting to come forth. Can something happen to keep the Oak from coming forth, from growing out of the acorn? Of course. But that does not change its genuine nature. Can we be provisionally separated from our potential, yes. Completely separated from the Tao, no.
Materially we were born and we will die. Immaterially we were never born and we will never die.
Enlightenment is unconditional. It cannot be forced. It cannot be pre-conceived. It is an experience, not an accumulation of power or knowledge.
Enlightenment is a perspective that once realized cannot be forgotten. From the first totality is a unitive one.
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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