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Posted by Lian Dao on 6/26/2009, 12:16 pm, in reply to "Re: question to Lian Dao."
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: i do apologise Butch for my slighting your
: book. i am not a fan of Hua Ching Ni or his
: business mission. i haven't seen the Walker
: rendition but i am aware that it was 'based'
: on Ni's. i am also aware that it forms one
: of the 'trinity' of Ni's holiest books, the
: covers of which form an 'altar' to the
: formost Taoist gods. The fourth, his
: 'Spiritual Workbook' depicts Ni on the cover
: as an incarnation of the Immortal, Lu Dong
: Pin. The inside isn't up to much either.
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: There are, allegedly, quite a few versions
: of the 'Classic of the Conversion of the
: Western Barbarians', to use its English
: title, all of which are excluded from the
: traditional (and othodox') Taoist liturgial
: 'canon' as much as for its promotion of
: sectarianism (ie anti-buddhism) as for the
: fact that it was compiled sometime in the
: 4th century C.E. ( when it first appears) in
: an attempt to pass off the pseudo-Buddhistic
: teachings in the book as pure Lao Tzu taught
: Taoism. More than likely it emerged as an
: effort to fend off 'foreign' Buddhist
: thought.
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: As books go, it has a somewhat ambigious
: history.
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: Thank you, Lian Dao, for the accurate info.
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Ay up, nah wurries.
i seem to recall that you had the dubious pleasure of meeting with the 'master' himself in his ivory tower, Severstar Communications?
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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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