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Posted by Steve on 3/12/2008, 10:00 am, in reply to "logical inconsistency at the heart of daoism and arresting the mind"
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: What I am saying is that although the Zen
: and Daoist model are quite useful in
: practice, they are even more useful in
: practice when we accept that there is
: apparently an inescapable logical flaw at
: the heart of these two models. To deny that
: seems to me to be as elementary a mistake as
: the Manichaens made, and for the same
: motive--
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Hi rat,
A dilemma--a 'loop,' if you will--is that although the natural state of things is emptiness, the attempt to effectuate emptiness draws one farther away from it.
Stillness is key, I think. 'Not doing'--understood in the Laoist context--is key.
Stillness and not doing. The ways of nature.
Steve
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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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