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04-05-2016, 11:41 AM
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Taoist Teachings
“When two things occur successively we call them cause and effect if we believe one event made the other one happen. If we think one event is the response to the other, we call it a reaction. If we feel that the two incidents are not related, we call it a mere coincidence. If we think someone deserved what happened, we call it retribution or reward, depending on whether the event was negative or positive for the recipient. If we cannot find a reason for the two events' occurring simultaneously or in close proximity, we call it an accident. Therefore, how we explain coincidences depends on how we see the world. Is everything connected, so that events create resonances like ripples across a net? Or do things merely co-occur and we give meaning to these co-occurrences based on our belief system?
Lieh-tzu's answer: It's all in how you think.”
― Lieh tzu, A Taoist Guide to Practical Living
Life is concatenation.
con·cat·e·na·tion
/kənˌkatnˈāSH(ə)n/
noun: concatenation; plural noun: concatenations
a series of interconnected things or events.
"a singular concatenation of events unlikely to recur"
synonyms: series, sequence, succession, chain
•the action of linking things together in a series.
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05-05-2016, 03:10 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2015
Location: In my cocoon.
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Within Silence
“When two things occur successively we call them cause and effect if we believe one event made the other one happen. If we think one event is the response to the other, we call it a reaction. If we feel that the two incidents are not related, we call it a mere coincidence. If we think someone deserved what happened, we call it retribution or reward, depending on whether the event was negative or positive for the recipient. If we cannot find a reason for the two events' occurring simultaneously or in close proximity, we call it an accident. Therefore, how we explain coincidences depends on how we see the world. Is everything connected, so that events create resonances like ripples across a net? Or do things merely co-occur and we give meaning to these co-occurrences based on our belief system?
Lieh-tzu's answer: It's all in how you think.”
― Lieh tzu, A Taoist Guide to Practical Living
Life is concatenation.
con·cat·e·na·tion
/kənˌkatnˈāSH(ə)n/
noun: concatenation; plural noun: concatenations
a series of interconnected things or events.
"a singular concatenation of events unlikely to recur"
synonyms: series, sequence, succession, chain
•the action of linking things together in a series.
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Everything imo is connected as one source moving everything as itself and as a whole as one source. The ripples seen and unseen but all there as one moving the whole.Noticing without using your mind or thinking to give reason, can open the flow of the unseen connections which will show you more in this way. I used to have to shift my reality to do this, but nowdays I can actually maintain this in myself as a state more so because I have emptied out beliefs to do so.
It means trusting one's intuitive intelligence, which is innate in the human mind just as the laws of change are innate in all things around us-From " The Tao of Physics - by Fritjof Capra
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“God’s one and only voice are Silence.” ~ Herman Melville
Man has learned how to challenge both Nature and art to become the incitements to vice! His very cups he has delighted to engrave with libidinous subjects, and he takes pleasure in drinking from vessels of obscene form! Pliny the Elder
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19-07-2016, 04:18 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Within Silence
“When two things occur successively we call them cause and effect if we believe one event made the other one happen. If we think one event is the response to the other, we call it a reaction. If we feel that the two incidents are not related, we call it a mere coincidence. If we think someone deserved what happened, we call it retribution or reward, depending on whether the event was negative or positive for the recipient. If we cannot find a reason for the two events' occurring simultaneously or in close proximity, we call it an accident. Therefore, how we explain coincidences depends on how we see the world. Is everything connected, so that events create resonances like ripples across a net? Or do things merely co-occur and we give meaning to these co-occurrences based on our belief system?
Lieh-tzu's answer: It's all in how you think.”
― Lieh tzu, A Taoist Guide to Practical Living
Life is concatenation.
con·cat·e·na·tion
/kənˌkatnˈāSH(ə)n/
noun: concatenation; plural noun: concatenations
a series of interconnected things or events.
"a singular concatenation of events unlikely to recur"
synonyms: series, sequence, succession, chain
•the action of linking things together in a series.
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What a great educational post!
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Prepare yourself for the coming astral journey of death by daily riding in the balloon of God-perception.
Through delusion you are perceiving yourself as a bundle of flesh and bones, which at best is a nest of troubles.
Meditate unceasingly, that you may quickly behold yourself as the Infinite Essence, free from every form of misery. ~Paramahansa's Guru's Guru.
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03-08-2016, 01:27 PM
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Location: Brooklyn, New York
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Within Silence
Lieh-tzu's answer: It's all in how you think.”
― Lieh tzu, A Taoist Guide to Practical Living
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That's a great quote from Taoism. Thanks for sharing.
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01-11-2016, 10:07 AM
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GREAT KNOWLEDGE
Great knowledge sees all in one.
Small knowledge breaks down into the many.
When the body sleeps, the soul is enfolded in One.
When the body wakes, the openings begin to function.
They resound with every encounter,
With all the varied business of life, the strivings of the heart;
Men are blocked, perplexed, lost in doubt.
Little fears eat away their peace of heart.
Great fears swallow them whole.
Arrows shot at a target: hit and miss, right and wrong.
That is what men call judgment, decision.
Their pronouncements are as final,
As treaties between emperors.
0, they make their point!
Yet their arguments fall faster and feebler
Than dead leaves in autumn and winter.
Their talks flows out like ****,
Never to be recovered.
They stand at last, blocked, bound, and gagged,
Choked up like old drain pipes.
The mind fails. It shall not see light again.
Pleasure and rage
Sadness and joy
Hopes and regrets
Change and stability
Weakness and decision

Impatience and sloth:
All are sounds from the same flute,
All mushrooms from the same wet mould.
Day and night follow one another and come upon us
Without our seeing how they sprout!
Enough! Enough!
Early and late we meet the "that"
From which "these" all grow!
If there were no "that"
There would be no "this."
If there were no " this"
There would be nothing for all these winds to play on.
So far can we go.
But how shall we understand
What brings it about?
One may well suppose the True Governor
To be behind it all.
That such a Power works I can believe.
I cannot see his form.
He acts, but has no form.
By Thomas Merton-The Way of Chuang Tzu
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04-11-2016, 02:21 AM
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Pathfinder
Join Date: Oct 2011
Posts: 85
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This is the Tao:
What came first? The chicken or the egg?
Stupid Questions.
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