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Posted by Butcho
on 7/20/2009, 10:00 pm, in reply to "The Mockingbird and the Dandelion"
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: Greetings all,
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: The old men were sitting on the creek bank,
: fishing, when the old boy spoke up.
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: 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
:
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: As daylight enlightened Deer Creek pu gong
: ying gazed at it's reflection upon it's
: water. But instead of seeing a dandelion it
: saw a mockingbird.
:
: Hello, pu gong ying said. How come you are
: my reflection?
:
: Greetings my friend, as you know, my ability
: to harmonize with what I encounter can
: enable me to be more than myself but
: distinct from all all others.
:
: But how can you look like a dandelion when
: you are a bird?
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: If the water is not still, our perception of
: the experience is that of the turbulence
: and can look like anything to the mind. But
: if the water is clear and calm there is
: nothing to reflect.
:
: So, spoke pu gong ying, emptiness is where
: heaven resides?
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: As mockingbird flew away, to some it's
: heaven, to others it's hell.
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: in peace,
: gar
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gar,
When water is clear and calm it accurately reflects whatever is before it.
When our mind is clear and calm it accurately perceives whatever is before it.
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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