[MD] Tao through intellect...

[Margaret Warren]

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> Peter Corteen
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> 'If you want to be a different kind of fish, you've got to 
> get out of the school' (Don van Vleit).
> 
> On 15/11/2007, MarshaV <marshalz at charter.net> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Greetings,
> >
> > Scholars, drunk on words and obscure meanings,
> > Weave a tangled web of concordances.
> > Simple practice never occurs to them.
> > Give up education, and the world will be better.
> >
> >
> > There are many who seek Tao through intellect.  They revel in 
> > thousands of coincidences, seek similarities in all the world's 
> > religions, conduct learned discourses for enthralled 
> audiences.  But 
> > they would reach the truth faster if they tied their thoughts to 
> > experience.
> >
> > The intellect is inherently dualistic.  It makes distinctions and 
> > creates new connections between concepts and calls that "meaning."  
> > This type of analytical thinking is extremely limited in 
> the face of 
> > Tao, which is not fully rational, nor fully quantitative, not fully 
> > describable.  Though most followers of Tao are learned, they also 
> > realize that the intellect is but one aspect in what must be a 
> > multifaceted approach to Tao.
> >
> > It is said one must give up education, not because we 
> should be dumb, 
> > but because we must seek a level on consciousness beyond the 
> > intellect.  We must study, but not to the point that emphasis on 
> > experience and meditation is lost.  If we can combine the intellect 
> > and direct experience with out meditative mid, then there 
> will be no 
> > barrier to the wordless perception of reality.
> >
> >
> >
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