Fidem wrote:
>linuxgal wrote:
>> duke wrote:
>>
>> > Tao: Don't do unto others that you don't want them to do unto you.
>> > Chrisitanity: Do unto others as you want them to do unto you.
>>
>> The world is sacred.
>
>Not really, it's just necessary.
Taking issue with the rule book
kinda tosses the rules out the window.
>> It can't be improved.
>
>Illogical.
Be that as it may,
them's the rules accordion
to the Tao Te Ching.
For Christians, Jesus is Tao.
To say he isn't is all well and good
if for you, or whomever, he isn't.
Quibbles are quibbles.
Semantics often sentences one
behind bars of its own making.
To say the world is not sacred,
when for Taoists who follow the TTC it is,
is to simply not follow that rule of thumb.
For one to feel free to make up one's own logic
and apply it to the logic of a different paradigm
might be to have a logic of one's own.
Paradigm ore knot.
Hence an interpretation of the TTC,
in the beginning (Tao able to Tao not always Tao)
or, m'ore cryptic, in Pinyin, dao ke dao fei chang dao.
In DDJ 29 referenced far above,
the Romanized Pinyin reads:
"tian xia shen qi."
Tian xia is often translated as the world.
Shen is often interpreted to mean spirit.
Qi might be pneumatic. Maybe look it up
as it may hold a key within it.
http://www.wayist.org/ttc%20compared/chap29.htm#top
http://www.wuwei.org/Taoism/taochinese.html
- wu shh