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Posted by Aaron
on 7/28/2009, 8:09 am, in reply to "Re: My Favorite Passage"
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: I was wondering what passages you liked the
: most from the Tao Te Ching. If you say
: "All passages are the same and to like
: one more than another is to say that one is
: better than another, which is not, yet
: is" then you're missing the point of
: the exercise.
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: Oh the one I like the most is Chapter 28,
: the one that begins:
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: Know the masculine,
: Keep to the feminine,
: And be the brook of the world.
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: Aaron
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: Greetings Aaron,
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: "I" like Chapter 28 the most,
: because you like Chapter 28 the most.
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: in peace,
: gar
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I'm sure that this answer is deep on many different levels, but to me it just seems condescending. When discussing the Tao it is inescapable that we will have different likes and dislikes. It is also inescapable that one should find something more appealing than something else. To find the medium is great, but very few of us will dwell their long without looking at both sides. So to ask "Which one do you like the most", is as important as asking "which one do you like the least", because without knowing you will never be able to find your center, you will wander lost.
I would like to be a part of this forum and discuss the issues that you talk about, but I'm not interested in elitism or nepotism. In the future I would suggest that it is always polite to answer a question as clearly as you can or refrain from speaking.
Aaron
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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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