I wrote:
Gary again: Absolutely! I completely agree with you.[referring to David]
Everything responds to its environment in ways that are appropriate to its
level. Everything has an interior and an exterior. Each level is not
really separate but
continuous! We humans use words which separate out the Dynamic Reality and
make it static so we can talk about it. But that does not mean that Reality
just sits there all static and unconnected and only on one level at a time.
Our words are not the thing! That is the Truth that Lao Tsu told us in the
very first line of the "Tao te Ching" Pirsig even quotes Lao Tsu in chapter
20 page 253 of the Quill edition. [I had a horrible thought, perhaps you
never read 'The Tao Te Ching'? Perhaps you never studied Taoism?]
"Then on impulse, Phaedrus went over to his bookshelf...it was the
2,400-year-old Tao Te Ching of Lao Tzu. He began to read through the lines
he had read many times before, but this time he studied it to see if a
certain substitution would work. He began to read and interpret it at the
same time. He read; 'The quality that can be defined is not the Absolute
Quality. That was what he said. The names that can be given it are not
Absolute names.' "
The Absolute Quality and Absolute names are the underlying Reality before
human words are applied.
Sincerely hoping you will read and reach enlightenment,
Gary
DMB response:
> Gary:
>
> :-}
>
> DMB
Gary's response: I can't help myself. I am immersed in language. David
your elegant non-verbal response is wonderful.
But.....................................I am ashamed I have to resort to
words, what do you mean?
Seeking Enlightenment,
Gary
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