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Posted by gossamer
on 11/12/2008, 9:30 am, in reply to "Is the Honeymoon Over the Valley?"
173.20.8.X
'America', who I saw in 1974, or '75 in Memphis, Tennessee, told a great secret: "the desert is an ocean with it's life underground........."
I know from living in New Mexico, that this is true.
Peace, gossamer (who is wondering why you call yourself "a bastard"? Do you not know your daddy?)
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: Dear Bao Pu,
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: I'm going to blame on a board member here.
: lol
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: About two or three weeks ago, I asked
: someone here (either Steve or Butch, I
: think) which were their favorite
: translations of the DDJ, and Richard Alan
: Dale was one of those translators.
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: So, I bought Dale's translation from
: Amazon.com, and it came yesterday.
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: We've probably got 35 to 40 different DDJ
: translations now, but frankly, David
: Hinton's is my very favorite.
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: I might call him 'a shamanic poet',
: Professor Hinton might not like that
: descriptor though...I'm not sure.
:
: But I DO love his 'Tao Te Ching'.
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: Peace, gossamer
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: Hi Gossamer,
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: I too believe he has mistranslated it. Why
: did you buy his translation?
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: Happiness and Harmony,
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: Gossamer,
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: I am the one that recommended Ralph Alan
: Dale's translation of the Tao Te Ching. I
: will not apologize. I think it is great. The
: good Doctor brings the holistic approach of
: one that has studied acupuncture for over
: thirty years and written numerous books on
: Chinese medicine to his translation. His
: book is in my opinion one of the finest 21st
: Century translations of the TTC out there...
: One reason I suppose there are so many
: translations is that though we are all the
: same we are all different.
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: Bao Pu is a snob. But he is a nice snob. I
: am a bastard. But I am a bastard.
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: Bastard or no bastard both "Spirit of
: Life" and "Valley Spirit"
: resonate with me. Life is life no matter
: where one finds it.
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: "On the first part of the journey
: I was looking at all the life
: There were plants and birds and rocks and
: things
: There was sand and hills and rings
: The first thing I met was a fly with a buzz
: And the sky with no clouds
: The heat was hot and the ground was dry
: But the air was full of sound
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: I've been to the desert on a horse with no
: name
: It felt good to be out of the rain
: In the desert you can remember your name
: cause there aint no one for to give you no
: pain
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: La, la...
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: After two days in the desert sun
: My skin began to turn red
: After three days in the desert fun
: I was looking at a river bed
: And the story it told
: Of a river that flowed
: Made me sad to think it was dead
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: chorus
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: After nine days I let the horse run free
: cause the desert had turned to sea
: There were plants and birds and rocks and
: things
: There was sand and hills and rings
: The ocean is a desert with its life
: underground
: And a perfect disguise above
: Under the cities lies a heart made of ground
: But the humans will give no love
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: You see I've been to the desert
: On a horse with no name
: It felt good to be out of the rain
: In the desert you can remember your name
: cause there aint no one for to give you no
: pain
: La, la ...." America.
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: Butch
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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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