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   From: invalid@invalid.invalid   
      
   {:-])))  wrote:   
   > Tang wrote:   
   >> {:-]))) wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> I always wondered ...   
   >>   
   >> The Russian dolls are mutually fitting, one inside   
   >> another. The banana plants have one sheath inside   
   >> another, until you pull out the last one, and there is   
   >> nothing beneath (a very common Buddhist metaphor   
   >> for the absence of self or "I"). The putative place   
   >> where the last one has been stripped off is the point   
   >> of view from nowhere, the stand of no-standing, and   
   >> I don't pretend to be anywhere near there, but if you   
   >> can experience it and speak from it, you are in the   
   >> know, but since it is the point of view from nowhere,   
   >> the stand of no-standing, your word and gesture   
   >> have no status and no signature. They are empty of   
   >> actor.   
   >   
   > When one realizes there is no I in the eye of a cane   
   > field of sugar then one can be as sweet as canes be   
   > when they are in a hurry to get thru the cyclonic wall.   
   >   
   > Two be or not two be   
   > can be a disjunction while a can of conjunction may serve   
   > a meal of how two be and not two be as one sitting   
   > at a table breaking something of a sort.   
   >   
   >>> That's my impression of Usenet at its best.   
   >>> If people are not endlessly entertained by a newsgroup,   
   >>> then one might wonder why they continue to enter trains   
   >>> of thought that get derailed incessantly inside of one.   
   >>   
   >> Buddhism and Daoism in general and their illegitimate   
   >> love-child, Chan, in particular are explicit attempts to   
   >> derail their followers' thought and trains of thought, gently   
   >> or otherwise, so that thought and trains of thought are   
   >> brought to a standstill and replaced by peace and   
   >> tranquillity, grace.   
   >   
   > While Chan might discard a raft after a trip across a water,   
   > swimmers in the Chuang-tzu have been known to sail   
   > without fear of drowning, or dive from the falls   
   > at Lu Liang and shoot the rapids, just, well,   
   > because it's there.   
   >   
   > Huizi said Zz's words were useless.   
   > Gnarly waves wave at surfers at times.   
   > When there are no waves, a sidewalk may suffice.   
   >   
   >> It is where mental culture earns its   
   >> keep, though the reward is claimed to be the default state,   
   >> wholly gratuitous and undeserved.   
   >   
   > I still don't know what all the talk of mental culture is about.   
   >   
      
   It's about digging through your enculturation and indoctrination and   
   obligations to find the self you've forgotten.   
      
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