From: david buchanan (dmbuchanan@hotmail.com)
Date: Sun Nov 20 2005 - 18:59:27 GMT
Peter, Case and all:
Case said:
The Tao of MoQ equates The Way with Yang and results in duality. In the Tao
of MoQ, The Way is balanced against Yin. Lao Tzu wouldn't stand for it.
Peter replied:
... I disagree when you claim the Tao of MoQ equated The Way with Yang. Is
Tao of MoQ your invention? As I understand Taoism, Yin and Yang are opposing
aspects and result in The Way. In any case, The Way is something other than
Yang. So it seems an inappropriate correlation of Taoism and MoQ.
RMP wrote: (ZAMM, end of chapter 20)
"...Phaedrus went over to his bookshelf and picked out a small, blue,
cardboard bound-book. He'd hand-copied this book and bound it himself years
before, when he couldn't find a copy for sale anywhere. 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 at the same time."
...
"Phaedrus read on through line after line, verse after verseof this, watched
them match, fit, slip into place - Exactly. THIS was what he meant. THIS is
what he'd been saying all along, only poorly, mechanistically. There was
nothing vague or inexact about this book. It was as precise and definite as
it could be. It was what he had been saying, only in a different language
with different roots and origins.He was from another valley seeing what was
in THIS valley, not now as a story told by strangers but as a part of the
valley he was from. He was seeing it all.
He had broken the code.
He read on. Line after line. Page after page. Not a discrepancy. What he had
been talking about all the time as Quality was here the Tao, the great
central generating force of all religions, Oriental and Occidental, past and
present, all knowledge, everything.
Then his mind's eye looked up and caught his own image and realized where he
was and what he was seeing and... I don't know what really happened... but
now the slippage that Phaedrus had felt earlier, the internal parting of his
mind, suddenly gathered momentum, as do the rocks at the top of a mountain.
Before he could stop it, the sudden accumulated mass of awareness began to
grow and grow into an avalanche of thought and awareness out of control;
with each additional growth of the downward tearing mass loosening hundreds
of times its voume, and then that mass uprooting hundreds of times its
volume more, and then hundreds of times that, on and on, wider and broader;
until there was nothing left to stand.
No more anything.
It all gave way from under him."
Hope that helps.
dmb
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