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Posted by Steve on 12/28/2008, 9:26 am, in reply to "Re: season of confusion- As we joyfully beat the dead horse even into the New Year!"
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: Hi Steve
:
: The main thing Rene claims about the
: message of Laozi is that there is nothing to
: do, you are already perfectly in tune with
: the dao. This is your claim as well, as I
: understand it.
:
: Those of us who suspect there is
: something to do in Laozi, do it just as we
: take a shower to feel better after being on
: a sandy beach. We don't claim to be any
: better normatively, by having taken a
: shower. We don't claim we are fundamentally
: better by being free from sand. Do you see
: any difference? When we do it (wei wu wei)
: we seem to feel better. No more than that.
:
: love,
: rat
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Yes, Rene's claim is my claim too. As a matter of fact, much of my vocabulary comes from her.
She is silk. I am sandpaper. That's the difference.
***
"We don't claim to be any better normatively...."
My friend, you are a cultivator with a difference.
Among cultivators who express themselves on these boards, you are in a small minority. As perceptive as you are, I'm guessing you already know that.
Oak Boy's view is fairly typical of most cultivators on the boards--though he's somewhat over the top even for most of them. He believes--sincerely, I believe--and from a place of compassion--that there are winners and losers in the universe, and that meditators constitute the former and non-meditators, the latter.
This is the 'Dao of the iPod,' which I named after a master on a board I once posted on. In the Dao of the iPod, cultivators are in harmony with the dao and as a result realize wondrous results. Health. Longevity. The ability to afford things like iPods.
***
This is no good, rat.
Say something provocative, and let's get this baby on the road again.
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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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