| Re: My Favorite Passage
Posted by Aaron  on 7/28/2009, 9:24 am, in reply to "Re: My Favorite Passage"
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: I was wondering what passages you liked the
: most from the Tao Te Ching. If you say
: "All passages are the same and to like
: one more than another is to say that one is
: better than another, which is not, yet
: is" then you're missing the point of
: the exercise.
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: Oh the one I like the most is Chapter 28,
: the one that begins:
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: Know the masculine,
: Keep to the feminine,
: And be the brook of the world.
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: Aaron
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: Greetings Aaron,
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: "I" like Chapter 28 the most,
: because you like Chapter 28 the most.
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: in peace,
: gar
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: I'm sure that this answer is deep on many
: different levels, but to me it just seems
: condescending. When discussing the Tao it is
: inescapable that we will have different
: likes and dislikes. It is also inescapable
: that one should find something more
: appealing than something else. To find the
: medium is great, but very few of us will
: dwell their long without looking at both
: sides. So to ask "Which one do you like
: the most", is as important as asking
: "which one do you like the least",
: because without knowing you will never be
: able to find your center, you will wander
: lost.
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: I would like to be a part of this forum and
: discuss the issues that you talk about, but
: I'm not interested in elitism or nepotism.
: In the future I would suggest that it is
: always polite to answer a question as
: clearly as you can or refrain from speaking.
:
: Aaron
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: Greetings Aaron,
:
: I'm sorry if you take offense to my
: response.
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: For gar there seems only questions not
: answers.
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: Are you interested in non-dualism?
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: in peace,
: gar
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Gar,
I'm interested in hearing someone's honest opinions and not regurgitated answers from numerous books they have read. In one sentence you say "I am intellectually inept", in another you ask if I'm "interested in non-dualism", an intellectual and philosophical construct. To tell you the truth, if I wanted to have an empty and meaningless conversation, based on who is the most intelligent or most well versed in the various texts and concepts of Taoism, Buddhism, or Confucianism, I could walk down to the local campus and talk to the kids. What I'm interested in, is hearing from people about their own life experiences and how Taoism (not the Tao) has effected their lives.
When I asked my first question, it was an honest attempt to learn what other people have found meaningful from the Tao Te Ching. To say you like it because I like it, is to say you are incapable of deciding something for yourself. Now if you say that I am acting un-tao-like, then you can tell the person that taught me about Taoism that they were un-tao-like. What I learned from them is that to sit back and let an untruth become a truth is inaction, that duality means that sometimes you will need to do things that you shouldn't do, just as sometimes you need to not do things you should. Dualism to me is a construct of morality that is antiquated. I believe that there is no good or bad, just man's concept of things. The only thing there is is being. With that being said, being isn't the easiest thing to be in the world. If I am saying to much and lacking wisdom I apologize. If I am reacting to your action, when I am supposed to be responding with inaction, I apologize.
I will hope that you can read this with enough humility to see my intent is not spiteful or arrogant, just an honest interpretation of what I see.
Also if anyone else would like to comment on their favorite passage, I would still love to hear from them.
Aaron
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