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   someone to liaM   
   Re: A Koan for our atheist friends   
   13 Oct 24 06:36:16   
   
   XPost: alt.support.depression, alt.support.schizophrenia, alt.bu   
   dha.short.fat.guy   
   XPost: alt.philosophy.taoism, alt.philosophy.zen   
   From: being@apolka.sign   
      
   liaM wrote:   
   > someone wrote:   
      
   >> Like Chuang Tzu's wife.   
   >> She returns to me now again.   
      
   >She returns to me now again..   
   >   
   >Unless I'm mistaken, that's all wrong..   
   >Hadn't Chuang Tzu let her go?   
      
   Well, yes and no. Hui Tzu asked him   
   about her and he, Chuang Tzu, replied.   
   So, he did and he didn't in various Ways.   
      
   Between they and me continues to be   
   a divide of sorts, me being me and all, she   
   returns even now of all times as the present   
   being full of nothing continues, two unfold.   
      
   To say a few things about nothing is possible.   
   There's really nothing to it, as a pronoun. It   
   stands in the place as a place holder of sorts.   
      
   It's kinda like zero, many know, how as a point   
   of origin, or any point or points on a line of a   
   kind of reason, connecting dots of theism to   
   forms of atheism naturally. A point has as   
   a dimension, basically, nothing, period.   
      
   Koans can be cans kicked for a spell.   
   When some body is depressed, schizophrenic,   
   a buddha short or tall, thru thick and thin, knowing,   
   contemplating zen forms a pebble, strikes a rock   
   and making a sound, the sound fades.   
      
   It returns to where it came from.   
   It is able to be akin to nothing.   
   It is a word, as nothing is.   
      
   Meanings vary.   
      
   - thanx! Cheers!   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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