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Posted by Butcho
on 7/20/2009, 9:27 pm, in reply to "Re: an essential feature of Dao"
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: Is the Buddha's Dharma the same as Lao Tzu's
: Tao?
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: If that is your question I would say that
: they are both pointing at the same moon in
: their own way.
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: There is only one way to, reason for,
: purpose in, pointing at the Moon.
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: You can not point at the moon in your own
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: Those that know why they point at the moon
: know that there is but one reason for
: pointing at the moon; those not knowing why
: they point at the Moon do not having a clue,
: are not being very bright.
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: Pointing at the Moon is merely Symbolic,
: there being many words, objects, symbolic of
: the same thing; The Same Thing being the
: Second Great Light that was Created when the
: Day was separated from the Night; The second
: Great Light being the Light that was
: separated our from in between Night and Day,
: Twice Light.
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Wayne,
I disagree. In my opinion everyone that points at the moon of actuality can only do it in their own way. In the way of their own understanding. In the way of their own insight. In the way of their own cultural milieu. In the way of their own direct experience filtered through their social conventions.
One way to actually see the moon is to look through a pair of binoculars. Suddenly an abstraction becomes a reality. Technology is not inherently problematic. It is our lack of wisdom that is.
The reason the sage or the mystic points at the moon is to try and help others see the moon as it is and not as we think it is. The mystic starts where we are, in our conditioned minds, and shows us "a" way back to our original state of being so that we can see again as if for the first time. As if awakened from a dream. Awakened from symbolic reality to actuality. Beginner's Mind. The mystic uses reason, reason does not use the mystic. Reason left to its own devices--the dominant mindset of our world, can only build a Tower of Babel. I give you the U.N. The unUnited Nations. The unUnited States. Polarization.
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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