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Our species has the peculiar ability to imagine non existent realities. When directed to the material world, we find ways to make life more secure and comfortable: we invent stone axe, central heating, penicillin, etc. When we direct imagination int…
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I've been have some trouble with the site; heaven know what is up. But, I hit the site with a hammer and it seems to be working... at least for now. Let me know it you have trouble again
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Hi, welcome metis, The literal word for word of line 4 is: gallop to hunt (cultivate land) hunt command (order; make; cause) human (man; people) heart (mind; feeling; intention; core) issue (deliver) go crazy, 驰骋畋猎令人心发狂，(chí chĕng tián …
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Einstein said that "If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough." I agree with Einstein when we're talking about 'solids' that lend themselves to rational explanation (i.e. words). When attempting to explain Nothing, we r…
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[cite]Posted By: weobley[/cite] Thinking I have free will helps me deal with the practicalities of day to day life. Knowing that I haven't, enables me to rest in the 'enabling'. Is it really necessary to "think I have free will" to act? Consi…
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I can't agree about there being no free will, that's just where I am at present. Yes, and naturally so. It has to be the most powerful of all human 'ideas', I guess I'd call it. I suppose it is firmly connected to "I am". If I think I exist, the…
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It reads well. In my view, one core purpose of writing or reading on this subject is for affirmation. That makes the 'reading well' aspect of your writing all the more important, eh. Due to my unbelief in free will, either proclaimed (as in the W…
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Why not put some of your work on this thread. I, and others I expect, at least have time to check out a pithy sample. Just a thought...
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Any answer I give you can never match the depth of your question. Even so, I'll comment a little on a few of your words first. This freedom was wonderful, but at the same time opened doors that were not there before. Having nothing to do witho…
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I find humankind's habit of believing what it thinks causes some of its greatest difficulties. We are delusional in thinking we know (and don't know it), or delusional in saying we are delusional (as I'm doing right now). Either way, If you would h…
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Does this make any sense at all, or is it just old man's ramblings? :roll: completely! For me, curiosity is a joy that never ends.
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BriGB says: Thanks, but this isn't about translation so much as grammar. As it stands, the sentence makes no sense. I thought I answered this a few days ago, but somehow my reply didn't stick. Anyway, context is all important, especially with…
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I'm happy you're finding it useful. But oh my, your reading from commentary I wrote in the 90's on D.C. Lau's translation. I'm afraid both English and writing are not natural skills on mine. So any coherency is either coincidental or won through tha…
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Not to nit pick, but translating / interpreting the Tao Te Ching too far a field from the actual Chinese can be misleading. Even as faithful Chinese to English wording as possible is problematic. Not that this matters really, because I feel understa…
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Got ya! My point about the animal bit is not so much about the commonly recognized biology of it, rather about our self perception. I've found that really embracing and maintaining a gut level realization that I'm an animal makes all the other issue…
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Welcome okietaoist, Those are some nicely crafted photos on your 'meditations' link. Now just a few thoughts on your thoughts... this is the ideal...yet how can it be reconciled with the times into which i was born, and the life i feel is right…
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Now I have to unlearn all that you have just said lol Exactly so, although I expect you wrote that as a humorous quip. I find the thinks it does not know. It is a process of continuously unlearning what I just learned and thought I knew. …
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Man these are some wise words... Well fatguyslim, lets see if I can't dissuade you of that view... ;-) Liu says that the best way to overcome the mind is to let it play its game and gradually bring it from disharmony to harmony Doesn't …
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I agree with Carl that what we see is our own thoughts is what we take as real but I wouldn't take it as an enemy but as a friend. How else can we work on it if it wasn't like that? Oh, I don't see thought as an "enemy". It's a totally natural…
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It becomes not only easy but unavoidable to distrust your emotions a little once you catch yourself in an emotional lie. I may be nitpicking here, but I'd say this a little differently: It is essential to trust your emotions because they ar…
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I'm trying to get some discussion started, it seems a bit quiet around here. I guess I'll just delve into more and more controversial topics, eventually I'll hit upon something that someone will feel compelled to discuss, even if it's just that I…
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Oh, such a name will never do, i.e., "The name that can be…" Although, 'Centertaoist' might work. That just translated to 'middle taoist' which ain't bad, eh? As far as "complicated exciting thoughts" goes, this perspective is priceless: [chref=…
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It makes me smile to see you suggest "it's just another by-path", as he's saying the exact same things you are, about viewing people from the point of view of the human animal, etc. The by-path is the supposition of pushing anything that is …
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I've never heard of "Prometheus Rising", but then don't read much other than Science News and whatever I must for practical reasons. If, as you say, "the whole book seems to be geared towards breaking the reader out of any narrow-minded partial worl…
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I hear you. Patiently waiting for 'difficulty to which we most need be alive.
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A desire for intoxication is a symptom of underlying need. Often desire leads us to actions than don't resolve the need, but rather mask it enough. Allow us to cope I was thinking more about this in regards to my "desire for intoxication" via …
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A desire for intoxication is a symptom of underlying need. Often desire leads us to actions than don't resolve the need, but rather mask it enough. Allow us to cope. It takes a certain degree of courage to drop the 'mask' and see what may actuall…
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Gee Winn, I don't know about "fun". Sobering and serious is more the fare here. But, there is a lighter side thanks to my sons:
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Just the opposite in my case. Initially everything went along fine. As time went on I end up rubbing more and more people the wrong way. I'm not exactly sure why, other than I don't tend to follow the 'party line', regardless of the paradigm. Throug…