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Posted by Steve on 11/10/2008, 4:07 pm, in reply to "the metaphysical brat pack"
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: 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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It's a good question, Lian Dao, and gets to the matter of how we know what (we think) we know.
I see it this way: If you don't already sense the metaphysical shit, you won't learn it from the printed page. What you sense is confirmed by the printed page, or not. The Really Really Wise Ancient Dead Ones are particularly good at getting us to recognize (or 'recall,' as Butch might say) what we already know.
Or so it seems.
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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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