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   {:-]))) to Tang   
   Re: Forked tongue (was Re: X)   
   20 Sep 16 05:58:21   
   
   XPost: alt.philosophy.taoism, alt.buddha.short.fat.guy, alt.philosophy.zen   
   From: wudao@wuji.net   
      
   Tang wrote:   
   > {:-]))) wrote:   
   >   
   >> Otoh, noname, and apparently you, Tang,   
   >> see Tong as something other than Dao.   
   >>   
   >> [snip]   
   >>   
   >> Esotericists are often invisible to exotericists.   
   >> Occulted by the lights, they remain hidden in planes,   
   >> possible in the 5th or 7th, dimensional sights.   
   >   
   >Pure speculation, to me. The DDJ does slip in some very   
   >practical, pithy disquisitions, in 19:   
   >   
   >???? End saintliness, do away with knowledge/wisdom.   
   >???? End learning, and you have no worries.   
   >   
   >Easy to say! But at least those two four-character sayings   
   >leave nothing to be desired in precision, which is deadly.   
   >Show those to your Chinese blue-collar associates on the   
   >floor, and I bet that they'll understand.   
      
   I'd like to do that, but first, I'd need to go somewhere   
   where they all might be. Most of us, almost all of us, are retired.   
      
   - at present   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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