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Posted by jemimy on 5/14/2008, 10:04 pm, in reply to "Re: Ignore the distractions--keep your head in the game."
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--Previous Message--
:
: 'Otherness' is one of those loaded words
: that will always mean something different to
: user and hearer. For me it points to
: 'mystery,' as I understand that concept in
: Laozi Chapter One.
:
: The wholeness in which I dwell is comprised
: of what I see and experience outright
: (manifestation) and what I sense in my bones
: (mystery). These have the same source but
: appear to me as two things.
:
: So, there is happiness in life and the
: placing of happiness in perspective.
: Misery, and the placing of misery in
: perspective. Two ways of seeing the same
: thing, at the same time.
:
: Thanks for the exchange, jemimy.
:
The Laozi offers numerous metaphors to suggest that which one may refer to as the originator of eternity, which is simultaneously oxymoronic and incomprehensible and can be no other way and still be what it is, was, or may become. Incomprehensible but likely no more mystical than what causes gravity.
I cannot speak for what you sense in your bones because they are your bones. Mine don’t work that way. Perhaps yours function as a cosmic antenna.
Yes, happiness and misery are petals on the same flower.
Butch says you are always wrong and, you are welcome.
j
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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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