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Posted by gar on 5/11/2008, 5:10 am, in reply to "Re: Choosing one over the other"
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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
:
Greetings Butch,
Hum, the source of my confusion seems to lie in the use of the word, love where it is used to describe the nameless (wu-ming) and the named (yu-ming). So, the word love will reside in consciousness and non-being will reside in heaven. For gar anyway, this allows one to experience peace and harmony.
in peace,
gar
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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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