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Posted by Steve on 8/7/2008, 9:01 am, in reply to "Confused is a good place to visit but I would not want to live there."
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: What I am pointing to is beyond right or
: wrong, beyond dualistic conception. I
: recommend the same way of bringing oneself
: into accord with the Way of the eternal Tao
: as does Lao Tzu and Dogen. Through the
: negation of negation until one realizes the
: great affirmation. Or back, if you prefer,
: to nondualistic awareness.
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Your reading of the Laozi is as valid--or invalid--as mine, Butch, but I don't find 'negation' or an imperative to return to nondualistic awareness there. The 81 chapters are all about affirmation, not negation. About seeing what's there, not about what's hidden from view.
I don't see in the writings a fundamental need to escape from, or return to, anything. It's a done deal. The war has been won.
You're so heavily invested in meditating and cultivating, Butch, that you've found it necessary to create and maintain a problematic universe in order to support your desires and longings in that regard.
(Cultivation trap #6, if you're interested.)
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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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