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Posted by brother redturtle
on 10/25/2009, 8:55 pm, in reply to "Truth is Where One Finds It"
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Truth?
Perhaps rather than truth, focus on reality...Its much easier to identify but often less comforting. I read once that a master is an imperfect representation of the truth of something.
A mastery of understanding does not need to walk with purity or in agreement with others judgement.
Consider you have walked across a desert and find an oasis. Does the failings and faults of the owner make the water less useful? The purity of the water should be examined not the owner.
Today it is very easy to disregard a message if you don't like the messenger. We need solutions to the pain in our world, but I'm afraid judgements are much more easily found.
redturtle
--Previous Message--
: A lot of uproar seems to happen when someone
: pulls an appropriate quote from someone else
: that someone else doesn't like...Anita Dunn
: quoting Zedong, for example.
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: But i see it happen all the time on forums,
: too.
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: 'O that can't possibly be true cus so-and-so
: said it!'
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: To me, this is like saying Alan Watts was a
: phony cause he drank too much.
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: Or like a kid saying they don't need to
: listen to their parents cause the parents
: aren't saints.
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: In short, it's a cop out, imo.
:
: Curious on all your takes on it.
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-Li Daoqun
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