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Posted by gar on 7/30/2009, 6:13 am, in reply to "The old men and the Dandelion"
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As the rain slowed to just a mist pu gong ying felt refreshed and greeted the new day.
Hello, master, said the rain drop as it clung to pu gong ying soft yellow pedals.
And it’s refreshing to feel you, master of Tao.
Please tell me rain drop where to you come from? Some say you come from heaven while others say you are heaven.
Ah, my friend, it seems that what appears before you is what you see. Sometimes I’m a drop of water but also can be a cloud floating high in the air and when circumstances are just so I can be as hard as a rock. So as you observe water you are looking a just a moment in time and I appear as a thing. But if you could observe more closely you would see that water is always changing.
Ok, but who are your mother and father?
It seems dandelion that the elements are the parents of all things.
Then what was before the elements?
Perhaps non-being gave birth to being.
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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