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Sitaram
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 Posted: Mon Jun 19, 2006 9:08 pm Post subject: Way of the Tao |
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pak_tea_house: i miss someone thats all its bizzare
I should control myself. I should be wise, at least this time
literarydiscussions: shoulda coulda woulda (the title of a book self help
cognitave therapy)
pak_tea_house: tell me, i cant have this person, what should i do
literarydiscussions: the 33rd stanza of the Way of the Tao says "He who
has learned to be content with whatsoever he has, has achieved true
wealth"
That same stanza says "To know others is wisdom. To know the self is
enlightenment"
pak_tea_house: i mean i am missing someone i cant and what do i do
literarydiscussions: The Buddha said that desire is the source of all
suffering. We suffer precisely because we desire things we cannot have
and we have things we do not desire
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Sitaram
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Tao (道 literally the Way or the Path; pronounced "Dao"), often translated
as The Principle, is a basic element in Chinese philosophy. It is the
ever-lasting essential and fundamental force that runs through all matter
in the Universe, living or not. It is most often associated with Taoism, but
Confucianism also refers to it.
To put it simply the tao ''is''.
The Tao may be understood as a resonance which persists in the negative
space created by glamorous objects. At the same time it flows through
the glamourous objects to form the immediacy which they create. It is
thus said in the *Tao Te Ching* to nurture all things, to create a pattern in
the chaos. The signature characteristic of this pattern is unfulfillabe
longing, to quote *Amadeus.* Taoist philosphers therefore ascribed it
with the quality of change, and artwork attempting to reproduce it is
characterized by flaws.
In describing Tao, the following analogy is used: Imagine a person
walking on a road. A bamboo pole is carried, resting on the person's
shoulder. On the end of the pole two buckets are suspended. The
buckets are likened to yin and yang. The pole is Tai Chi, the entity
separating the two. The road is Tao.
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