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Posted by Steve on 5/10/2008, 10:05 am, in reply to "Choosing one over the other"
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: The word love still keeps puzzling me. But
: what it does signify, is an emotional
: preference for something.
:
: 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.
:
: 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.
:
: in peace,
: gar
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Thought-provoking post, gar.
Whatever I cling to--love, hate, compassion, despair--in time becomes toxic and morphs into something else.
What I'm left with is the confidence that in time everything will change, and complete confidence that that's okay.
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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