[FairfieldLife] Tao-te Ching: Expressions of Consciousness

[michael]

Tao-te Ching: Expressions of Consciousness
with dr. bevan morris mum



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uAx059ecLgfeature=related


  

[FairfieldLife] Tao te Ching

[Rick Archer]

Tao Te Ching; Verse 28: Timothy Freke Trans.

 

To be filled with the masculine power of Yang,

Follow the feminine nature of Yin.

Be empty like a valley,

Where water gathers to form a stream.

Gather Natural Goodness,

Until you are like a little child again.

 

To be filled with light,

Acknowledge what is dark.

Be an example to the world.

Allow the stream of Natural Goodness

To carry you back to the infinite.

 

To be filled with honour,

Be humble about your shortcomings.

Be empty as a valley.

Follow the flow of Natural Goodness,

To the sea of Primal Simplicity.

 

The wise are aware of the whole,

While interacting with the parts.

This is how they can help without harming. 

 

Re: [FairfieldLife] Tao te Ching

[Sal Sunshine]

On Sep 2, 2008, at 9:40 AM, Rick Archer wrote:


The wise are aware of the whole,
While interacting with the parts.
This is how they can help without harming.


Sounds like a New-Age fortune cookie.

Sal

Re: [FairfieldLife] Tao te Ching

[Samadhi Is Much Closer Than You Think -- Really! -- It's A No-Brainer. Who'd've Thunk It?]

Yes, Sal, yet it is a good fortune we're cooking. *LoL*

A similar paradigm may have been implicated in math class, particularly
either algebra or geometry.  Early in the class the instructor tells the
'boys and girls' that lines, circles, etc. are contituted by the alignment
[imaginary] of various points in a continuity, while the chalkboard upon
which they are drawn is constituted of an infinite number of points, just on
the chalk board alone.

A wise person, even a child, having a polished vijnanamaya kosa well
exercised and comfortable with it, will hear such words and apply the
principles to the whole universe and more closely, everything the student,
the wise student, touches and perceives in everyday life.  Abhidhyana
and svadhyaya, mingled with their sincerity and implicit faith, carries the
true student into subtler realms and their creativity serves the world in
progressively more inventive, liberating and subtler realms.

Nothing candy-wrappered about that, nothing pseudo-spiritual about it.

*When Shakyamuni Buddha was at Mount Grdhrakuta, he
held up a flower to his listeners.  Everyone was
silent. Only Mahakashyapa broke into a broad
smile.  The Buddha said,  **I have the True Dharma
Eye, the Marvelous Mind of Nirvana, the True Form
of the Formless, and the Subtle Dharma Gate,
independent of words and transmitted beyond
doctrine.  This I have entrusted to Mahakashyapa .*

On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 8:16 AM, Sal Sunshine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

   On Sep 2, 2008, at 9:40 AM, Rick Archer wrote:

  The wise are aware of the whole,

 While interacting with the parts.

 This is how they can help without harming.


 Sounds like a New-Age fortune cookie.

  Sal