Re: MD What's the difference?

From: Platt Holden (pholden@sc.rr.com)
Date: Mon May 05 2003 - 15:14:28 BST

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    Hi Sam:

    To my equating of:

    Reality
    Now
    Existence
    "I" or Self
    Apprehension
    Experience
    Quality
    Consciousness
    The Tao

    Sam replied:

    > I think there are differences but it all depends on context. "In most cases
    > (but not all) the meaning of a word depends upon its use in the language."
    > (Wittgenstein - again!).

    The "context" is the MoQ.
     
    > I would not tend to equate 'The Tao' or 'Quality' (or possibly 'Reality')
    > with the others. But that might just be due to my Western philosophical
    > background.

    The Tao and Quality do seem to be the same. There are number of
    descriptions of the Tao, but probably the most often repeated one is,
    "The Tao that can be described is not the Tao." Nevertheless, here's
    one that sounds much like Quality:

    Something mysteriously formed,
    Born before heaven and earth.
    In the silence and the void,
    Standing alone and unchanging,
    Ever present and in motion.
    Perhaps it is the mother of ten thousand things.
    I do not know its name.
    Call it Tao.
          Tao Te Ching

    Connecting the other words isn't hard if you accept the MoQ
    presumptions:

    Quality=Reality (Existence)
    Quality=Experience (Now)
    Experience=Awareness=Apprehension=Consciousnes
    Consciousness="I" or Self ("It's Quality that has Lila." (11))
    Quality=the Tao (as you suggest)

    It is only when intellect does its divisive thing that we get these different
    words all pointing to the same phenomenon.

    Or so I'm beginning to conclude.

    Platt

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