Tao Speaks: Re: loop-escape

Re: loop-escape

Posted by Steve on 3/12/2008, 6:48 pm, in reply to "loop-escape"
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: If you are saying loop-escape is a
: subjective experience that can be enhanced
: by skillful means, I agree. I have problems
: when skillful means is taken to be a
: fundamental (not practical) solution for
: anything. I have problems when anything is
: claimed to be fundamentally solved.

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This is delicious, rat: "I have problems when anything is claimed to be fundamentally solved."

The act of opening our mouths and sputtering our nonsense contradicts common sense--in the purest sense of the term--yet we do it.

I'm very interested in why and how we have the courage to do the thing.

Steve

Message Thread:

logical inconsistency at the heart of daoism and arresting the mind - rat 3/12/2008, 8:45 am
- Re: logical inconsistency at the heart of daoism and arresting the mind - Steve 3/12/2008, 10:00 am
  - Re: logical inconsistency at the heart of daoism and arresting the mind - rat 3/12/2008, 10:08 am
    - Re: logical inconsistency at the heart of daoism and arresting the mind - Steve 3/12/2008, 10:38 am
      - Re: logical inconsistency at the heart of daoism and arresting the mind - rat 3/12/2008, 6:05 pm
- arrested consistency and the art of Daoism and Chapter 16 DDJ as the key - Lian Dao 3/12/2008, 10:50 am
  - Re: arrested consistency and the art of Daoism and Chapter 16 DDJ as the key - gar 3/12/2008, 5:09 pm
    - here and there and back again - Lian Dao 3/13/2008, 1:20 am
      - Re: here and there and back again - gar 3/13/2008, 6:47 am
        
        yeshua wants me for a rainbow - Lian Dao 3/13/2008, 7:13 am
        
        Re: yeshua wants me for a rainbow - gar 3/13/2008, 7:32 am
        
        fundamentalist choice heaven or hell? i choose neither! - Lian Dao 3/13/2008, 11:10 am
  - loop-escape - rat 3/12/2008, 5:58 pm
    - Re: loop-escape - Steve 3/12/2008, 6:48 pm
      - Re: loop-escape - Chris 3/12/2008, 9:02 pm
    - subject to conditions - Lian Dao 3/13/2008, 1:41 am
      - Re: subject to conditions & enjoying despite not escaping - rat 3/13/2008, 9:47 am
        
        round and round the mulberry bush - Lian Dao 3/13/2008, 11:07 am
- Bad Faith - Butch 3/13/2008, 10:02 am
  - Re: Bad Faith - rat 3/13/2008, 6:36 pm
    - Re: Bad Faith - rat 3/13/2008, 6:36 pm
  - Re: Bad Faith - Wayne L 3/15/2008, 1:08 pm
- Re: logical inconsistency at the heart of daoism and arresting the mind - Wayne L 3/15/2008, 11:48 am
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--Previous Message-- : If you are saying loop-escape is a : subjective experience that can be enhanced : by skillful means, I agree. I have problems : when skillful means is taken to be a : fundamental (not practical) solution for : anything. I have problems when anything is : claimed to be fundamentally solved. : : ---------- : : This is delicious, rat: "I have : problems when anything is claimed to be : fundamentally solved." : : The act of opening our mouths and sputtering : our nonsense contradicts common sense--in : the purest sense of the term--yet we do it. : : I'm very interested in why and how we have : the courage to do the thing. : : Steve : :

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