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Posted by Butcho
on 6/21/2009, 5:48 pm, in reply to "Re: question to Butch"
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: "Every human being's essential nature
: is perfect and faultless, but after years of
: immersion in the world we easily forget our
: roots and take on a counterfeit
: nature." Lao Tzu.
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: Excuse me for butting in, but can you tell
: me where Laozi says that, Butch?
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: Thanks.
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Nina,
I never mind you butting in.
Ok. You got me. I do not know which translator of Lao Tzu put some of his words in exactly this way. But I have come across these words numerous times. I did not just pull them out of my butt. What made me think of them is I just started reading Wayne Dyer's new book "Excuses Begone!" and he uses this supposed statement of Lao Tzu to open his book. I do not know from which of the many different translations of Lao Tzu that Dyer drew from in his research of the Tao a couple of years ago that he found this wording.
And I know that ren ying is a stickler for a literal translation so I have left myself open for questions, knowingly. But the fact is, in my opinion, the quote I have used here is consistent with my understanding of the spirit of the Tao Te Ching. It is an argument for cultivation. Nothing less.
Perhaps someone else knows from where Wayne Dyer and others have gotten this quote you have questioned.
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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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