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How Does the Teaching That Uses No Words Work?

CarlCarl
edited March 2008 in 'One Who Knows Does Not Think, Speak Or Write...'
Wow! To know contentment in today's world is no easy task. I think one must experience when enough is enough! I guess some of us never reach that point in our lives, that is a very sad situation. :cry:

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  • CarlCarl
    edited December 1969
    Experience is the best teacher they say. Through experience, for the most part, I discover what doesn’t work! This process of trial and error guides me on my ‘way’. So, why not teach others that which doesn’t work? Isn’t this because for each person, what doesn’t work varies both in time, extent, content, and context. Thus, we must each discover the Dharma through the experience of what does, and perhaps more significantly what doesn’t, work for us personally. This is not teachable; yet this is the only truly essential lesson to learn in life, or so I feel. Thus, the Tao Te Ching comment: ‘do the non word teaching’ (行不言之教 - ch.2), or as D.C. Lau put it, [chref=2]practices the teaching that uses no words[/chref].
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