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    Duality

    Sorry about the late reply, the hard drive on my computer broke and my mobile can't do replies on here. I probably didn't express it right but the foundation of my topic is in the idea that the Tao is so unknowable and and seemingly non-selective that I think it is strange we apply duality to it...
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    Duality

    I could see that as a very traditional view in reference to the literature. But if we take into account that the Way is inescapable and that to deny the way, to try to alter it still leaves you in the way than decisions really have no effect on what the way is. A non-Taoist is just as much...
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    Duality

    Was wondering if anyone wanted to discuss the importance of duality in Taoism? I sometimes wonder if duality is too restrictive a concept for the Tao. I mean inherently it is unknowable, sure, but within the canon (which is widely accepted at least as wise) there is a proposal of duality. But...
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    Heaven the Potter's Wheel

    Oh ok I can definitely see that. There are a lot of the stories where Confucius is educated (or sometimes educating) in a Taoist parable. Plus (and I reference your name here) there are discussions of the straw dog and the need to throw away formalities such as ancestral worship by Lao Tzu.
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    Heaven the Potter's Wheel

    Suchness is little vague for me so I am having difficulty understanding what you are saying there. I think you are saying that the observer and the observed are in conflict with each other, giving them form? Comparable to how when you put air in water you get bubbles(a form) because the air and...
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    Heaven the Potter's Wheel

    This is really interesting. I think you are definitely on point with interpreting the potters wheel metaphor and I think you can look to Lao Tzu in Mang Wi II of Tao Te Ching (D.C. Lao Everyman's Library Translation) where he says "Something and Nothing producing each other; The difficult and...
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    Is Go, and the I-Ching Part of Understanding the Dao

    I like Go, it's a fun game and I have read the I Ching out of curiosity. I think in the sense that these exist within the Tao and within it's duality of course they relate to it. There is Go and there is something that is not Go. There is the I Ching and something that is not the I Ching. Other...
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    Which wisdom deity would you recommend?

    Psychoslice is well informed. You and any deity you would wish to worship should be equally knowledgeable of the Tao. Also you might like the suggestion to see beyond good and bad from Lao Tzu. Knowledge and ignorance are both part of the Tao that move alongside you. I think that's it at least...
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    Is Buddhist practice higher than Taoist practice?

    I'm confused on what you are asking. Where does this form of Taoist-Buddhist hybridization get practiced? As far as I know for spiritual canon most Taoist just go to hell to be purged in fire and be reincarnated (if you're a spiritualist) but I have very little knowledge of folk-Chinese Taoism...
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    "High and Low incline towards each other." - Lao Tzu

    "High and Low incline towards each other." - Lao Tzu
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