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Posted by Steve on 5/8/2008, 11:30 am, in reply to "Re: Things are not what they appear to be; nor are they otherwise - Surangama Sutra."
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: Love is the absence of good and bad.
: "Make no normative judgment" Jesus
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: "Embrace what the world throws in the
: trash." Zhuangzi
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Yes, that's it.
'Good' is what furthers the game, and assuming the humans don't upset the natural balances (or even, perhaps, when they do), 'good' and 'bad' are indistinguishable.
It's neither good nor bad when a dry summer produces fires that decimate thousands of acres of woodland. That war and human aggression have been around as long as the humans suggests that even those phenomena serve purposes unfathomable to us.
The mystical Christians get this. It was 'bad' that Jesus was tormented and crucified, but without this 'bad,' the 'good' of our salvation would not have been realized.
Without the 'bad,' no 'good.'
Laozi 101.
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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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