This goes back to older discussions in APT and elsewhere, viz Is there anything that is not Dao? This is, of course, rife with paradoxes, (including the...
... ur approach is less "strict" <grin> ... Probably in the sense that it is in perfect accord with natural law that unsustainable behavior must eventually...
Hi JK, The Golden Rule "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you" obviously sets up a dualistic mindset (others and you). ==> yes, this shows...
I looked up the "Golden Rule Poster" on line. This is the Daoist quote used there: Regard your neighbor's gain as your own gain, your neighbor's loss as your...
... Odd, I thought the DDJ do good to others that do good to you and do good to others that do evil to you will be a closer analogy to the Golden Rule than...
Many years ago, with only a three year association with the Chinese language, I sat down with only Feng & English's "Lao Tsu - Tao Te Ching"(1972) and a worn...
... FIRST STEP of VIOLENCE Well, first thing is that otherness does not exist. It is just human term, one of many views on reality and therefore empty word....
Hmm, from one comes two, and from the two come the myriad things. If there is no concept of otherness, if it is only a pov, can you have Yin and Yang? Or is it...
I'd say Laozi was acutely aware of the gulf between himself and others. This from Chapter 20 (my translation) f (That) that which the others hold in awe g Will...
... And this leaves us where? You MUST expect me to object to a point of view whose logical conclusion leads to this forum closing up shop <grin> I suspect we...
"Otherness equals the beginning of violence" as posited by JK is really a value judgment. Value judgments are born of the human fertile human mind but being a...
... a couple on hand? Could it be that any and all translations -- regardless of language-- only reflect what the understanding that the Chinese themselves...
Chapter 7 - translation by mative speaker - Translation by Gu Zhengkun, Beijing University Press, 1975: *Pin-Yin (the numbers are the four tones): tian(1)...
Hi there, Oneness (one or singularity) as such does not exist in the phenomenal world as we know it, in fact it does not exist at all. We can try to search for...
... I wound up taking a compromise position here with my version - I put all the qi pronouns (that I thought might be implied" in parentheses, so the reader...
There is a slight element of sarcasm, snarkiness, condescension, etc. appearing in different poster's postings. We are all at different levels of knowledge...
*...When you translate this passage in this way: " The sage puts his body last and thus he finds it to be first" it is as if a sage is capable of "bilocality"....
Yes Doug, I think you and I are on the same page. At 3:00AM Chapter 2 popped into my head: 2. Abstraction When beauty is abstracted Then ugliness has been...
I went for a swim in the river and Now my head is swimming too Reading all these posts On the Golden Rule, So I went back to the river to Float on water and As...
While trying to track down a reference, I see that we have been around since October of 2000. In scrolling through the archives, there is a great deal that I...
... Such a nice touch to bring to mind this "birthday". I, for one, hope that this symposium will gain more participation. It is such a good idea. Thank you...
I have found the search utility for messages to be largely useless. Is this others experience as well. Yahoo claims to have a better system but before I...
You're right - it's a pretty useless engine. Playing around I saw that Larry Moore (Moleili) was still a member - is he the departed friend you spoke of? I got...
Whatever happened to the CD? I remember hearing about it a few years ago. Yup, molei was the fellow in question. He had sent me an email about someone who...
kueikutzu wrote: Whatever happened to the CD? I remember hearing about it a few years ago I still have mine. If you write to me off line with a mailing address...
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