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Posted by Steve on 4/16/2011, 9:53 am, in reply to "Re: Liberation: my understanding of Rene and Steve's view"
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: I would guess that you would not.
: Without the sense of loss/unpleasantness,
: there can be no sense of gain/pleasantness.
: "At peace with discontent" is a
: skill one can cultivate. What do you think?
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My sense, rat, is that one cannot "make come about" the feeling of contentment, the sensation of harmony with dao, etc. These things either come or they do not.
I think I can remove myself from situations and environments that impede contentment and the sense of "okayness"--for example, a relationship that has gone toxic--but I can't "make" bliss come about.
If the notion of "cultivation" enters your mind, you were already on a potential path to more contentment way before the notion occurred to you in the first place. It was a kind of "grace" that put you on the path in the first instance.
(You may recall that I harbor some quasi-"predestination" ideas that aren't exactly popular on these here dao-focused forums. lol.)
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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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