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Posted by dagmar on 7/20/2009, 11:25 pm, in reply to "The Wind and the Dandelion"
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thanks for the stories Gar
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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
:
:
: In the stillness of the morning air master
: pu gong ying heard a whisper calling out.
: Master, I was the wind but I've lost my
: power, what should I do?
:
: Greetings wind, it seems by not doing, you
: are making it possible to return to what you
: are. The power that comes from heaven will
: make you strong again.
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: But master, heaven has forsaken me. Without
: power I'm no longer the wind.
:
: Be cool or hot, wind, heaven shows us the
: way. Go where you are not, embrace change,
: be what you need to be.
:
: Ah, yes master, as the sun rises I feel
: heavens energy returning so I can perform my
: duties and carry your most precious seeds to
: where they are not.
:
: 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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