XPost: alt.philosophy.taoism, alt.buddha.short.fat.guy, alt.philosophy.zen   
   From: wudao@wuji.net   
      
   noname disagreed:   
   >> {:-]))) wrote about how:   
   >   
   >>> If anything, Taoism would suggest the opposite.   
   >>> Water seeks its own level as rivers flow to the sea.   
   >   
   >Water does not seek its own level as rivers flow to the sea.   
      
   Figures of speech often skate on thin ice.   
      
   >Rivers flow to the sea because water can only exist at its own level.   
      
   The highest high best of the best is akin to water.   
   Seek to evaporate and not to condense when falling.   
      
   >Water is real, rivers are things men conceive when they observe water   
   >existing at its own level.   
   >   
   >The facts remain the same.   
   >One is more true than the other.   
      
   One is the one that emerges from Tao.   
   The rest is history.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)