| Re: Question for Lian Dao
Posted by Wayne L  on 6/23/2009, 10:09 am, in reply to "Re: Question for Lian Dao"
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: Wing-tsit Chan was commenting on DDJ #4.
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: "The chapter, on substance and function
: of Tao shows clearly that in Taoism function
: is no less important than substance."
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: in peace,
: gar
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What we have here "is a failure to communicate."
Tao, Reason, the function of the Mind is no less
important than than the functioning of the Flesh Body.
Mortal Man, Man born of the dust of the ground, born of Flesh and Bone will surely die, become extinct without Tao, the ability to reason, Reason being born of a sound Mind.
Taking a misinterpretation and writing a commentary only adds to the distortion of the original thought.
Dusty could be use to describe Emptiness, Nothingness, the Great Void, a State or Condition which from the Beginning is full, full of the Reality of Everything as it exists today, the Physical Universe; The Reality of Everything in the Beginning existing without shape, form, design, in the beginning there being nothing but darkness upon the Deep, the Abyss.
The mind being fuzzy, full of cobwebs, could be said to be dusty in the beginning, when mortal man is first born.
Adam was born of the dust of the ground.
Eve rather than being born of the dust the ground is a creation born of Adam, Eve being a little on the dusty side, Spacey, void, dim witted, empty headed, guileful, of unsound mind, Ambiguous, arbitrary, contentious.
Tao, Reason, is not born of the Rational Mind alone, Monism, Monergism, to Reason without substance, without being in touch with Reality as it exists independent of our thoughts concerning it, is to Rationalize.
Rationalize;
1. to ascribe (one's acts, opinions, etc.) to causes that superficially seem reasonable and valid but that actually are unrelated to the true, possibly unconscious and often less creditable or agreeable causes.
2. to remove unreasonable elements from.
3. to make rational or conformable to reason.
4. to treat or explain in a rational or rationalistic manner.
5. Math. to eliminate radicals from (an equation or expression): to rationalize the denominator of a fraction.
7. to invent plausible explanations for acts, opinions, etc., that are actually based on other causes: He tried to prove that he was not at fault, but he was obviously rationalizing.
8.to employ reason; think in a rational or rationalistic manner.
—Usage. Although RATIONALIZE retains its principal 19th-century senses “to make conformable to reason” and “to treat in a rational manner,” 20th-century psychology has given it the now more common meaning “to ascribe (one's acts, opinions, etc.) to causes that seem reasonable but actually are unrelated to the true, possibly unconscious causes.” Although the possibility of ambiguity exists, the context will usually make clear which sense is intended.
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