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Posted by jemimy on 5/17/2008, 10:14 pm, in reply to "the paradox of cultivation"
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: Stop trying to live in harmony. Give up
: desire and expectation and confusion fades.
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: j
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: Heh...your words are simple, jemimy, but
: there's a glorious dilemma for the humans
: there.
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: To 'stop trying' and to 'give up' are simply
: different ways of 'trying' and 'clinging
: to.' You want my friend gar to 'do' two
: things there: to stop doing something and
: to give up something.
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: That's the paradox of cultivation. You
: perpetuate the very 'trying' and 'clinging
: to' that you recognize to be undesirable.
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There’s not much semantic wiggle room, Steve, stop means stop. Stop wanting things, stop expecting things, stop trying and simply…be.
The paradox of cultivation, your “glorious dilemma,” is that cultivators become so enamored of cultivation and talking about cultivation that they never move beyond it--perpetually striving to be somewhere mentally that is, apparently, beyond their reach.
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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