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Posted by Butch on 5/10/2008, 9:47 am, in reply to "Choosing one over the other"
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: gar,
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: "Love the Source of reality with all of
: one's heart and mind. Love others even as
: one loves oneself." Matthew 22:37-40,
: Jesus.
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: "The Love/Religion has no code or
: doctrine, only Love." Rumi
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: 1st Corinthians Chapter 13: The Love Chapter
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: http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20corinthians%2013
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: Tao Te Ching, Chapter 13: "One who
: loves the self equally with all under heaven
: may be entrusted with the world."
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: http://www.terebess.hu/english/tao/yutang.html
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: "All we need is love". John Lennon
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: Butch
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: Greetings Butch,
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: The word love still keeps puzzling me. But
: what it does signify, is an emotional
: preference for something.
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: In Wing-Tsit Chan book, The Way Of Lao Tzu,
: (Tao-Te Ching) the line in verse 13
: says,"He who loves the world as his
: body may be entrusted with the empire."
: well, that seems to point to the ability to
: realize reality through undifferentiated
: eyes.
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: So, the question is, if we sense that
: opposites are to be synthesized and
: harmonized how can there only be love? Is
: holding love up above all others, a false
: prophet.
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: in peace,
: gar
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gar,
In my opinion, if we are going to idealize something, I suggest love.
Beyond the this or that choice some think love is, love/hate, I would defer to my buddy Stu.
"The pain and pleasure of our human paradox is not a problem to be solved, but an ENIGMA to be lived. We are that limitless Mystery, Love. And Love has no opposite." Stuart Davis
Obviously Stu has read Aart Van der Leeuw's statement about such things. "The mystery of life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced."
Love is another word for that which is beyond naming. A more universal name than even God or Tao or Great Spirit in the Sky. God is Love. Tao is Love.
Wu-wei is the expression of Love. Unconditional action. Conditional action leaves one in the infinite regress of theodicy. Why do bad things happen to good people? That is, I have been good so why don't only good things happen to me? Because we are not robots. Wu-wei is about the realization that the journey is the destination. Ends do not justify means. Each cause has its effect, each effect has its cause, an infinite regress. Wu-wei is action that is in accord with the way of the Tao. With the way of Love. Love even your enemies. Love is not a pragmatic consideration. It is the realization of the part in the whole, of the whole in the part, and the whole in the other. Mountains are again mountains.
Totality is not numerically One, it is a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts. A whole that is a unitive one. Manifold.
Love is not a state of mind, it is a state of being.
Butch
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-Li Daoqun
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