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Posted by Butcho
on 7/18/2009, 8:55 pm, in reply to "Re: an essential feature of Dao"
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: Do you suppose that the ten thousand things
: act like guests because we have no
: permanence and all things are fluid?
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: in peace,
: gar
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: please use code
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: utf 8
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: This is an interesting question...
: one could understand it as if dao and
: tenthousand things have a personal mutual
: relationship...
: but this would not harmonize with ddj5...
: i think this:
: the quote is from ddj 32
: line one points to chang wu
: remembering the definition of chang in ddj
: 16
: 萬物并作
: 吾以觀復
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: 夫物芸芸
: 各復歸其根
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: 歸根曰靜
: 靜曰復命
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: 復命曰常
: it is the merging... the interaction of
: pairs (并作) which is leading to an action
: of nature for harmonizing the polarisation
: to have a chance for this feature
: tenthousand things behave like guests...
: will say
: there is interaction, respect, honouring the
: opposite and a looking for complementing...
:
: but of course - there is no personal
: relationship
: alike of a host and a guest
:
: and of course:
: as it is said in yijing:
: there is an everlasting change...
:
: Daodejing 16
:
ren ying,
The subtlest thing, the Tao, does not change. It is the obvious that changes.
Butcho
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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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