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Posted by Butch on 3/24/2008, 12:23 pm, in reply to "Easy baby, we won't be here forever"
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: I thought Ching meant change?
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: Tao-Reason, Te-Way, Ching-Change.
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: wiki
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: ?“ç? I Ching (yi jing)
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: ??(yì), when used as an adjective, means
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Beth and Wayne,
Everything that comes into existence goes. All that is manifest is in a constant state of flux, change. Therefore, it can be argued that nothing we can see, feel, or touch exists for nothing stays still long enough to be a fixed reality. But it can also be argued that this is a case of parsimony, an oversimplification. Nuance would say that maya is not that our world is an illusion so much as the thinking that any seeming part of our world is separate from any other seeming part. Day seems to be separate from night, but in fact day and night are but two poles of the same underlying unity. Day/Night, Yin/Yang.
What doesn't change is the eternal Tao for it is not a seeming thing that seemingly changes. The Tao neither is nor isn't this or that. The processes of existence are eternal. The Way of the Tao is eternal. The Way of Lao Tzu is our Way today, and tomorrow.
Become the Thunderbolt,
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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