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Posted by Lian Dao on 11/10/2008, 11:22 am
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i believe that it was Dean Martin who once said that he had never read a goddam book in his life and it had never done him any harm.
Maybe not, but then again few of us here have had the pleasure of being close friends with Frank Sinatra and Sammy Davies Jnr. , and so the rest of us have to make do with the printed page.
As Taoists, you have Lao Tzu and Chuang Tzu to keep you company, and maybe some other classics over at the weekend, and as a poor Buddhist i merely have innumerable sutra's, commentaries and records of Dharma-teachers to keep me on the straight and narrow. However do you think that you would have arrived, for the want of a better word, to where you are today, if you had never read a goddam book in your life?
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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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