
Posted by ren ying on 8/1/2009, 3:15 am, in reply to "Water 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.
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: Hello, master, said the rain drop as it
: clung to pu gong ying soft yellow pedals.
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: 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.
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: Ok, but who are your mother and father?
:
: It seems dandelion that the elements are the
: parents of all things.
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: Then what was before the elements?
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: Perhaps non-being gave birth to being.
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: In peace,
: gar
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Thank you for this - i like this story...
metapher for all is changing... ?!
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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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