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Posted by Lian Dao on 11/12/2008, 9:51 am, in reply to "Re: 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.
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: 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.
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: Or so it seems.
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You don't have to post the 'or so it seems' disclaimer with me old bean.
Would you then suggest, with what you suggest above, that those that take a literal view of these ancient metaphysical texts, or depend upon anothers interpretation of these ancient metaphysical texts, are wrong? Wrong, in that, they have no self-knowledge of what is written in these ancient metaphysical texts?
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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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