[ Post a Response | Tao Speaks ]
Posted by wulf on 4/18/2011, 11:56 am, in reply to "Re: can laozi's dao be noble - beautiful - ugly - evil - benevolent? ... absolute?"
92.229.16.x
--Previous Message--
: wulf, good morning, nice to see you (-:
:
: If laozi's dao could be captured by laozi
: within laozi's words - then what you say is
: true.
:
: My idea of dao is that it is found in and
: part of everything - including typical human
: qualities and emotionality of human beings;
: dao's absoluteness, to me, is its aspect of
: constant change.
:
: But that's just my idea of dao. It might not
: be the same as laozi's idea of dao. After
: all, dao is just an idea.
:
: warm regards
:
:
:
hello rene
"dao is just an idea"
thats exactly the problem for understanding...
it is a problem to work out laozi's original idea of "dao" within all this big amount of different translations and understandings in different groups - mixed with buddhist ideas ... christian ideas and so on..
---
sometimes i have the feeling that the daoist traditions in the different schools and the commentators rooting in confucian tradition as Wang Bi have done a lot in changing the original idea of laozi's dao...
246
"The Tao is basically utterly open. Utter openeness has no substance. It ends in endlessness, begins in beginninglessnes".
-Li Daoqun
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Webmaster: zentao00@yahoo.com Donations help to support, upgrade and expand the Tao Speaks! community..Fight Spam! Click Here!
