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[MarshaV]

Greetings Mark,


On Sep 8, 2012, at 12:27 PM, 118 <ununoctiums at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Marsha,
> 
> On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 4:32 PM, MarshaV <valkyr at att.net> wrote:
> 
>> Hi Mark,
>> 
>> My response to Jan-Anders was only to acknowledge his statements.  I did
>> not find it necessary to accept or reject what he presented.  He obviously
>> has a different understanding from moi.  I find Steve Hagen's Buddhist
>> explanation very compelling and it fits with my own experience of conscious
>> awareness.  Also, RMP seems to affirm this view through his recommending
>> the book so highly.  I have only ever found stream.
>> 
> 
> Mark:  You had said to Jan-Anders "nice".  That has meaning more than
> acknowledgement.

My response was, I hoped, a polite way of acknowledging Jan-Anders comment without either accepting or rejecting their interpretation.  

More on the Tao (Zhuangzi):

"The men of old, their knowledge had arrived at something: at what had it arrived? 
There were some who thought there had not yet begun to be things -- the utmost, the exhaustive, there is no more to add. The next thought there were things but there had not yet begun to be borders. The next thought there were borders to them but there had not yet begun to be "That's it, that's not". The lighting up of "That's it, that's not" is the reason why the Way is flawed. (ch. 2, pp. 54)"
        ( http://ccbs.ntu.edu.tw/FULLTEXT/JR-MISC/101801.htm )


Marsha