
Posted by rat on 12/27/2008, 5:04 pm, in reply to "Re: season of confusion"
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--Previous Message--
: Greetings Steve,
:
: Could be that,
:
: " I understand it to also suggest that
: 'enlightenment'--that fictitious holy grail
: for which countless billions have murdered
: and been slaughtered--is a crock of
: warmed-over peacock shit."
:
: comes from enlightenment.
:
: in peace,
: gar
:
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:
: Heh...I doubt it. It's really quite
: intuitive, I think. Which is why even a
: jerk like me can be attracted to the notion.
:
: From Day One I've read your posts to reflect
: an intuitive attraction to it as well,
: friend gar.
:
: Where can we wander--in what woods or in
: what city--in what darkness or in what
: light--where it is not?
:
"where it is not?"
That's also the claim of Zhuangzi: "Wu suo bu zai"
But maybe a bit more nuanced than yours. He did think you could screw up the dao and anything else--from the ren point of view.
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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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