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Posted by Butch on 5/11/2008, 6:45 am, in reply to "Re: 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.
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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.
:
: 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
:
Steve,
Time is a mental construct. As such, it is merely another this or that, past or future. It is the eternal now where refuge is found.
Chuang Tzu could parse words with the best of them. And yet he laughed at words. So I will laugh at the word "Love". Ha ha ha. Ho ho ho. Hee hee hee.
If gar wants to make a big deal out of a word then I still love him anyway.
Love, like all words, are an attempt to point at something, not an attempt to be something. Words are symbollic. To look past words, past symbols, to reality as it is is what the sages are pointing to. Not at their words. And yet words are all they leave us. Thus the story goes that Lao Tzu was reluctant to write the Tao Te Ching. Words more often confuse than enlighten. And yet scholars swear by them.
Ennui is another word for love. That something that is nothing that is everything. That something being said that cannot be said. To see better in the dark one looks out of the periphery of one's vision. And so it is with the heart's eye. More of a feeling than a fixed reality. A feeling that the sages say is possible to reside in, no matter the circumstances. All things are in a constant state of flux. It can be argued therefore that no thing exists for no thing exists long enough to actually be a thing.
But the essential is not a thing for there is no thing to compare it to. All things have opposite things. Love is not a thing. It is a reality. A reality beyond this or that. The sage does not condemn the storm. But she does head to higher ground.
Love is that higher ground. Meditation, paradoxically, is a master method of reaching that higher ground. Meditation is love. If it is not, then it is not meditation. Zen without love is not Zen. Zen is more art than science. Zen is a feeling that ultimately transcends method.
The Tao is "like" love. A love that passeth understanding. A feeling. A feeling grounded not in any one part, but in the whole. A knowing beyond knowing. Our original nature.
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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