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Posted by Bao Pu
on 2/9/2009, 5:37 am, in reply to "Re: Tao Te Ching #1 Chuang Tzu's Way."
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: Nice post, Butcho. You state your case
: well.
:
: Just two points that are important to me and
: no one else in the universe...
:
: (1) "Anything goes" sounds like
: the hedonism thingy again. Perhaps I'm just
: being paranoid, but that's what it sounds
: like to me.
:
: (2) I don't think the wise Chinese dead ones
: privileged anything, including wu-wei.
:
: In the Laozi, for example, the way is laid
: out before us. The good. The bad. The
: soft. The hard. The easy. The difficult.
:
: Not..."Here's what you need to
: do," but "Here's how it
: works."
Hi Steve,
I don't agree on your second point, but let's assume that the nature of the Daodejing is "here's how it works" and not "here's what you need to do." What would motivate people to write a book on "how 'it' works?"
health and harmony,
Bao Pu
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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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