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Posted by josef on 4/10/2009, 9:45 am, in reply to "destroyer of language"
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This dialogue led me to some interesting musings. Religion is a system of *taught* beliefs. Language is a system of *taught* symbology. Taught=conditioning.
Imagine living in the most natural state on an island somewhere with no one to teach one anything. Without language or conditioning what one would learn, would have "faith" in, as that food satisfies hunger, water satisfies thirst; some snakes and plants are dangerous, and so on.
The world we create with our concepts is an alternate reality, a mental world, literally, that we experience, live in and from. Unnecessarily.
That's where wu makes sense, where wu wei makes sense. Wu is where the unnecessary isn't, wu wei is where we act and live without the unnecessary. Essential, simple, direct.
Imo.
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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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