[MD] Reading & Incomprehension

[Krimel]

[John]
Now I'm gonna have to carve out one piece of this dialogue, and expand on it
a bit..

[Krimel]
When you carve the block it is no longer uncarved. Whatever potential you
hack out of the block destroys other potentials it may contain. Taoist art
is quite interesting and I don't remember enough to go on about it other
than emperors would send people out into the world looking for Tao in
boulders and stones of swirled jade and granite. What made these "art" was
the balance and harmony of the swirled mixtures of color they revealed.

[John]
Does naming the Tao do any good?  Very good question, unkle Bo.  I will have
to think about that for I don't know.

[Krimel]
Naming it Tao works for me as I tried explaining to the granite headed one.
But I read the King James Bible for the same reason. I know modern
translation as more accurate but I want ancient writings to sound foreign
and alien precisely because that's what they are. I reject the modern sound
because it sounds modern. I must have read 10 or 15 different translations
of the Tao te Ching and they are all very different in part because of the
ambiguity of ancient Chinese. I love that. I think I know it in a better way
because there are so many ways to know it.