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Posted by Lian Dao on 2/4/2009, 12:59 pm, in reply to "Be Afraid, very, very Afraid."
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: What's with that shit...'fear God'?
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: That is the same shit Steve practices.
: "Fear God" means to fear trying to
: do anything. If you don't try to do
: anything you will be taken care of. But you
: also have to not try to not try.
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: Hadn't thought of it that way, rat. But I
: can see it.
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: If I were a theist though, I would love,
: unconditionally, my god. There would be no
: fear.
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: It will have freed me from the need to do or
: control anything, and in doing so will have
: lifted a great burden from my shoulders.
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: Why would I fear such a benevolence.
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: Friends,
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: "Fear" is actually a poor
: translation. A better word that is a more
: accurate translation is "awe",
: rather than fear. The "awe" of God
: is the beginning of wisdom. That sort of
: thing. "Respect" too comes to
: mind. But the religious minded are more into
: fear than awe.
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: I see the words of the Teacher to be very
: Taoist. Perhaps I am the only one here that
: does.
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: And I also see God and Tao as
: interchangeable. I am open to different ways
: of saying the same thing. We are all blind
: men when it comes to the Elephant in the
: room.
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Of course you do Butch.
Of course you see the tao and god as interchangable.
Why wouldn't you?
And if you turn the light in the room on, you'll also see that it wasn't an elephant aftr all.
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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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