Michael from a mount
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Carl, I was very sorry to hear your mom had passed on. All the compassion and understanding in the world can't really help in such a time, can it? Just in case you can use them somehow, I do want to offer a few images my dad's passing gave me. A…
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Hard-nosed maybe, but reeking of and radiating reality. Heresy becoming recognized as a better description of things would seem to describe the experience of improving one's view of things. To me every one of your comments are clarifying, thou…
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Much as I prefer heresy, and agree with much of yours, I do have some differences. Somewhat shockingly in any human conversation, these will bring me BACK TO THE TOPIC OF THIS THREAD!, which should probably be retitled as 'Four Taoists and their Di…
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More of that rascally accuracy out of you! You do way too good a job of pointing out the knife edge hidden in that light-hearted 'hoodwink' name you put on this. Heart and mind certainly act like they're of the man-made, illusory side of the rea…
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Thus, rather than "embracing the hurt", learn the lesson embedded within it. Your need creates your hurt. It is totally within and has nothing whatsoever to do with the outside world. Of course, our biology strives to hoodwink us into seeing it o…
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If you would have a thing shrink, you must first stretch it For me, that's just how any thing or action in this world works, including words, lives, thoughts, us, our conversations and all the rest here and every where or when else. We stre…
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That’s one gorgeous set of quotes you’ve assembled there. And the understanding that for me removes all the confusions inferred in, bemoaned of and transcended by each quote, being the confusions we’ve been told to think of as paradoxes, co…
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Accepting the unity behind our mental dualities seems to be a big part of the curriculum. Tao as 'path' has pointed my attention to the messy balancing and unbalancing that goes into walking. As engineers trying to replicate our walking in robot…
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Your rooting on top of that wall is an understanding I've used already several times since you wrote it. Thanks for that, friend.
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Essence 'gives rise to' forms. Individuation is a part of the completion of the tao, through heaven, earth and man. It is the part of te (manifestation) with which we are inherently most familiar and most able to talk about. The first chapter and …
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Just so. Anxiety is the face of clinging to an old balance. Feeling balanced is accepting the balance you already are, or have newly become.
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Thanks for sharing your education. I hope your school is teaching you as much as your getting through it is. You've gotta twang the string to get a note out of it.
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Yes, vision is a great example of our twin modes of perception. Realizing that we so comfortably blend such different modes, has made it much easier for me to accept the real unity behind other perception-generated 'dualities', like the eternal and…
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I am not enabled/hobbled by knowing modern or ancient Chinese, but get a lot out of Jonathan Star's character by character translation of Tao Te Ching. He also comments that chapter one is 'the whole message', and includes a great section going ove…