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Posted by gar on 6/26/2009, 6:57 am
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Greetings all,
The old men were sitting on the creek bank, fishing, when the old boy spoke up.
I bet you guys a nickel that as Taoist we can agree that; " While all other things move spontaneously on the course proper to them, man has stunted and maimed his spontaneous aptitude by the habit of distinguishing alternatives, the right and wrong, benefit and harm, self and others, reasoning in order to judge between them. To recover and educate his knack he must learn to reflect his situation with the unclouded clarity of a mirror, and respond to it with the immediacy of an echo to a sound or shadow to a shape."
Chuang-tzu, who was fishing without bait on his hook, said, " The fundamental error is to suppose that life presents us with issues which must be formulated in words so that we can envisage alternatives and find reasons for preferring one to the other." Apparently nobody had shown Chuang-tzu how to fish and he was unwilling to read the book, fishing for dummies, written by those logical Greek geeks.
A long long time had passed when a dandelion sprang up from where the old men had fished. As a bee sat on the yellow pedals it said to the dandelion, why are you so plentiful and so giving.
I am only what has gone before, not this or that, but because I'm what you see, I am what you desire.
Quotes from the book, CHUANG-TZU the inner chapters A classic of Tao
Translated by AC Graham
in peace,
gar
1589
"The Tao is basically utterly open. Utter openeness has no substance. It ends in endlessness, begins in beginninglessnes".
-Li Daoqun
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