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Tao - name and shame
lobster
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Having lost my monkey mind to a banana, I was dancing with the butterfly mind of Taoism. A profound form of indigenous Chinese Dharma that deeply influenced Zen/Chan development.
Do you practice Tai Chi, read about Tao, dance with butterflies?
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Yes I dance with butterflies -don't we all?
Erm..No...No...and ..No.
I am an Englishman..but deep down underneath all that..I am still an Englishman.
Its Englishness all the way down.
Quick chorus of 'I am who I am ' in a Rex Harrison voice..
Rex Harrison is spinning in his grave, as I 'sing'...
"We do not get to choose when we are going to die or how to die. Yet we can decide when we are going to live. The time is now. Seize today and trust not in tomorrow. Eternity does not begin after death, it extends to all of the time in our lives. We are in it now. We can have it if we give up-give up our imagined ability to control life. [...]
Our daily life is part of the universe, as every small drop of ocean water reflects the enormous sun. If we cannot change the orbit of the sun, we cannot decide everything in our life, either. Therefore, we should accept the pain, treasure the joy, and appreciate life now. [...]
Just follow the course of nature, and life will reward you generously. Between your house and your shop, there are numerous little spots of happiness: a squirrel running away from you, a raindrop falling on you, and a stranger greeting you. Just acknowledge them. They always come to you. You do nothing, and nothing is left undone.
A life of reaction is a life of bondage. I believe that one must strive for a life of nonaction or action, not one of reaction. We should act effortlessly, without anxiety and hesitation. Sitting on the beach quietly is doing nothing. Swimming in the ocean bravely is doing everything. We are free, as long as we cross between the two without anxiety or hesitation.
Do not hesitate when crossing. Do not be bothered by the opinion of others. Hear the call of nature, and act for yourself. You do not want to come to the last moment of your life and find that you have simply lived life's length. You should also have lived the life's width. So when you leave the world, you will not say, 'I didn't do this' or 'I did that wrong.' You are going to say, 'I regret nothing. I came. I did nothing. I did it all. As a happy guest, I leave now.'" (Qiguang Zhao)
Tao is not just the Tao-te-King.
"Wu Wei (doing nothing) is wisdom. You tell life, 'I trust you; do whatever you want.'
Wu Bu Wei, (doing everything) is the creativity to build a good habit. We do not have to solve every basic question of life. We just follow the established good habit, as a mathematician follows established equations without having to prove it every time. [...]
We are not scholars who make every effort to understand books. We are artists who apply our knowledge to our lives."
Thanks guys,
Having no mind worth mentioning, I like to contemplate butterflies, birds and the way beyond no way . . . hey . . .
The flitting monkey mind if too loose changes to rigid openess, just as the closed being opens to yin-yang flow . . .
Or as Mr cushion read in a fortune cookie: 'use your noodle before you lose your noodle'
Ah so . . .
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yin_and_yang
Intelligence is the door to freedom and alert attention is the mother of intelligence.
Nisargadatta Maharaj, I Am That
As a friend of mine said when picking up a copy of that book
" I'm All That..and a bag a chips ".
Its possible that you need to be a Brit ...
Naw, I'm an American and even I know that's not funny.
j/k
"Without names, we are undefined; without definition, we have no meaning; without meaning, our borders are limitless. We are not defined by others: we define ourselves. To do that, we need a beginning. We choose to begin nowhere, with the emptiness that came before the modern world gave us names." (Qiguang Zhao)
^^^ we haz plan!
One of my favs.....
The Parents Tao Te Ching, Ancient Advice for Modern Parents -- William Martin
The op? ....... no, yes, and you know I'll dance anywhere, anytime.
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This gave me the most marvelous moment of insight!
The reason I like you so much is because you talk like a lolcat!
Ditto. And the cushion porn :eek: ...
To the original question - yes. As a matter of fact, this post was the impetus for a plan the wife and I put in to effect earlier tonight. Before bed each night (she goes earlier than I), we would read one verse aloud and discuss. Someone living in this body read it many times before but I never have.
Thanks guys,
I am related to lolcat via my Puppy Linux inspired logo . . . as for my hardcore cushion dharma . . . Mr Cushion is urging me not to go bareback . . .
Meanwhile back to the Wu Way hey diddle diddle
“Rabbit's clever," said Pooh thoughtfully.
"Yes," said Piglet, "Rabbit's clever."
"And he has Brain."
"Yes," said Piglet, "Rabbit has Brain."
There was a long silence.
"I suppose," said Pooh, "that that's why he never understands anything.”
― Benjamin Hoff, The Tao of Pooh
http://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/55188-the-tao-of-pooh
Has Mr. Cushion tried?
Maybe he likes?
Love the Tao of Pooh!
I thought about posting a summation of the PHD thesis of a friend who used it to explore the relationship between Daoism and Buddhism..but I thought in the interests of peace and harmony I would desist.
Is that you on the nude picture, @lobster?
I would gladly pin mine, but unfortunately Playboy and Penthouse own the copyright
Actually its me @dharmamom. I don't know how @lobster got hold of that pic..I demand an explanation !
PS I have let my head hair grow back since then.
"When you work with Wu Wei, you put the round peg in the round hole and the square peg in the square hole. No stress, no struggle. Egotistical Desire tries to force the round peg in the square hole and the square peg in the round hole. Cleverness tries to devise craftier ways of making pegs fit where they don't belong. Knowledge tries to figure out why the round pegs fit in round holes but not square holes. Wu Wei doesn't try. It doesn't think about it. It just does it. And when it does, it doesn't appear to do much of anything. But Things Get Done."
Benjamin Hoff-- The Tao of Pooh
"Be aware of Tao. Isn't that simple? No? Let's reduce more... Be Tao."
Deng Ming-Dao--365 Tao
Demand away . . .
Mr Cushion is a little more coy.
and now back to the Tao . . .
_"Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them- that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like." _ (Lao Tzu)
"The journey of a thousand miles begins with one single step." (Lao Tzu)