[MD] Taoism

[MarshaV]

Greetings,

I was curious, not resentful.  I thought to maybe point out that 
we're all caught in a language dilemma.  God, feminism, just 
words.  But your point was well made.

Marsha


At 12:21 AM 1/9/2008, you wrote:
>Imagine walking along a sidewalk with your arms full of
>groceries, and someone roughly bumps into you so that you
>fall and your groceries are strewn over the ground.
>
>As you rise up from the puddle of broken eggs and tomato juice,
>you are ready to shout out, "You idiot! What's wrong with
>you? Are you blind?" But just before you can catch your
>breath to speak, you see that the person who bumped you is
>actually blind.
>
>He, too, is sprawled in the spilled groceries, and your anger vanishes in an
>instant, to be replaced by sympathetic concern: "Are you hurt? Can I
>help you up?"
>
>Our situation is like that. *When we clearly realize that the source of
>disharmony and misery in the world is ignorance, we can open the door of
>wisdom and compassion. Then we are in a position to heal ourselves and
>others. *
>*
>*- B. Alan Wallace, "Tibetan Buddhism from the Ground *Up"
>  *
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collection of overlapping, interrelated, inorganic, biological, 
social and intellectual, static patterns of value.