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Posted by Steve on 2/8/2009, 4:22 pm, in reply to "Re: Tao Te Ching #1 & the complaining lady"
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: Hi Steve
:
: If you are saying "It is an
: illusion that works" I would not
: disagree.
:
: But I also suspect that any characterization
: of anything is quite plausibly an illusion.
: The only thing I find to be surely real is
: my subjective experience. I experience it,
: and ipso facto, by definition, it exists.
:
: For me, not only cultivation is quite likely
: only "pretend", so is everything
: else quite likely to be that.
:
: love,
: rat
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"Illusion that works" is nice, rat. I'll save that one, then in a month or so use it in a reply to one of your posts. By then you will have forgotten that you coined it, and I'll get the credit.
Some people freak out at the suggestion that what they (as well as I) profess is a kind of pretend. For those in search of 'meaning,' the idea of pretend can be threatening and disempowering.
I find the idea of pretend to be quite empowering, actually. Freed from the burden of having to 'get it right,' what perils could possibly await me?
Steve
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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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