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Posted by gar on 7/15/2009, 6:00 am, in reply to "The old men and the Dandelion"
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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
:
:
As the morning mist rose up from Deer creek pu gong ying heard grasshopper shout,
Look how high I'm hopping dandelion, don't you think I'm the best hopper you have ever seen?
Yes grasshopper you can hop high. But does high hopping make you a better grasshopper?
Yes indeed dandelion, all the other grasshoppers must envy my skill in hopping.
Look, this will be my greatest hop yet.
As grasshopper leap high in the air, crow flew down and swallowed him.
Well, ant said, who was sitting on dandelion, if grasshopper hadn't jumped so high crow would have never seen him.
Maybe, friend ant, in "leveling all things", when one's interest is in his own person he cannot equalize things. Thus, he has lost the charter of heaven.
in peace,
gar
:
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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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