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Posted by Butch on 3/26/2008, 10:06 pm, in reply to "Re: Rebel Without a Cause"
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--Previous Message--
: Steve,
:
: Are you advocating against taking
: responsibility for one's life?
:
: gar's question about why some people
: cultivate and some don't. I don't know. So,
: I said, "Some people do, and some
: don't". I do not claim to know why.
: With that said I still say that the only
: life worth living is the examined life. I've
: lived both ways and I highly recommend the
: latter.
:
: There is only one way... Yes, but you didn't
: read the rest of the sentence... but there
: are many places along that way. Each of us
: has a unique perspective of the whole
: elephant in the room. My favorite part is
: the skin. Google "Blind Men and the
: Elephant".
:
: Perhaps you should Google "Santana
: Dharma". It might help you to read
: about the Mother of our World's Religions,
: Santana Dharma. A religion and philosophy
: that dates back in written form at least
: 6,000 years. The eternal natural law is
: universal. There is only one path. But it is
: viewed differently by different traditions
: and individuals. No two of us are at exactly
: the same place on the path, but we are all
: on the same path. Everything is
: interconnected.
:
: There are many taos, but only one eternal
: Tao. A one that is greater than one, but
: undivided. A unitive one. There is no other
: such unitive one, there is only one whole
: that is greater than the sum of its parts.
: There may be more than one universe in a
: physical sense, but there is only one whole.
: The whole is manifold, not monolithic. Call
: it God, Allah, Tao, Great Spirit in the Sky,
: I AM THAT I AM, all just names for that
: which is beyond naming.
:
: There is a difference between rebelling
: against those that would force their opinion
: down others throats, and mocking those that
: speak their truth openly.
:
: If you are feeling any heat it is due to the
: friction of your own original nature trying
: to break through your conditioning. You can
: continue to demonize me if you like, but
: until you are willing to deal with your own
: demons you will remain disenfranchised where
: mine are concerned.
:
: Butch
:
: ----------------------
:
: You're a piece of work, Butch, if ever there
: was one.
:
: I've never advocated against 'taking
: responsibility for one's life'--whatever the
: hell that means. What I've argued against
: are the prescriptive notions of thinkers
: like you who profess to know the 'true' and
: 'right' way of proceeding in this life.
:
: I think you're still in the 48-hour grace
: period, Butch--during which I said (the
: other day) that I'd love you
: unconditionally. So I'll stop here.
:
: Steve
:
:
Steve,
The only method I have prescribed is that our life is up to us.
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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