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Posted by Steve on 3/14/2008, 8:09 am, in reply to "josef and Steve"
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: Hi josef and Steve
:
: I think it is worth noting one positive.
: Both of you speak candidly to each other.
:
: If it were another discussion board
: somewhere on the internet, I would guess at
: least one of you would be banned. But we
: are lucky here.
:
: (I think we are-- I don't want to appear
: too arrogant)
:
: love,
: rat
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Hi rat,
Only guessing, but I suspect Laozi would not have participated in an internet forum that attempted to impose harmony. The harmony either comes from within, or it does not come.
In my experience, boards that attempt to enforce harmony do so through imposed 'correct-speak,' fear of ostracism, and obedience to local masters. Such boards often become cults of personality centered around the guru-in-charge.
Josef and I occasionally go at it, tension gets released, and then equilibrium reestablishes itself. Unless one is a flat-liner, one experiences these kinds of interpersonal cycles from time to time in ordinary life.
They're often undesirable, these human cycles of ours, but they happen.
I say: Watch them come, watch as they do their thing, don't cling to them, and watch as they fall away.
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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