[MD] Tao through intellect...

[MarshaV]

Hi Ron,

Everything is what it is!  How deceptively simple.  Quality.  And I 
bet you do know this.

Marsha



At 10:02 AM 11/15/2007, you wrote:
>Marsha,
>I wanted to express that I know of what you speak.
>My wish is to help uncloud the path toward this realization.
>If I eliminate one trap toward this I feel that I
>Have contributed a small something to this forum.
>
>Thank you for your excellent posts.
>
>I feel making SOM synonymous with intellect is
>One such trap.
>
>-R
>
>
>
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>Subject: [MD] Tao through intellect...
>
>
>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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