[MD] Tao through intellect...

[Margaret Warren]

 [tropical hot dog night] 

ha ha - yes (Beefheart). 

race preserving pickle - l love this line!


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> ian glendinning
> Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2007 12:55 PM
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> 
> 
> Margaret, Marsha, et al ...
> 
> People just love to play with words ...
> 
> Some great word-play (and visual art) going on over at the 
> "Inclusional Forum"
> 
> Example from Alan Rayner
> "My, what a sunburst of the life-affirming energy that flows 
> into and out from your convection cell you have drenched us 
> in with these words! The sizzle of the living light and 
> loving darkness alluded to in the attached poem and painting 
> and within the superchannel - there for anyone to find and 
> bask in when the fatal attraction of definitive possession is 
> relaxed... Save the sizzle, experience the world! Meanwhile 
> [-] what a fine sizzle you have got us into! But I'd rather 
> be in a living, loving sizzle than in a race-preserving pickle!"
> 
> Ian
> 
> 
> On 11/15/07, Margaret Warren <carma at carmapro.com> wrote:
> > Tropical Hot Dog Night
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
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> > > [mailto:moq_discuss-bounces at lists.moqtalk.org] On Behalf Of Peter 
> > > Corteen
> > > Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2007 9:17 AM
> > > To: moq_discuss at moqtalk.org
> > > Subject: Re: [MD] Tao through intellect...
> > >
> > >
> > > '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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