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Old 19-03-2020, 08:12 PM
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Originally Posted by ketzer
Is this from the Tao Te Ching? It brings to mind the vinegar tasters.
http://godbeautyperfectionlove.com/2...negar-tasters/


I cherry-picked part of chapter 35 for that...

I read what you pointed to with interest, and yeah it does summarize things pretty well IMO. But I don't think it tells the whole story as seen by the masters...

for example this:

The collective mind is bright and sunny, gay and prosperous
It is like enjoying a sacrificial ox
It is like ascending a tower in springtime.
The self alone, is so moored!
it is not yet divined on the tortoise-shell
it is like being a baby-child before it smiles.
Unattached, so unattached
The self looks absent of a place to merge.
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