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   liaM to All   
   Re: Forked tongue (was Re: X)   
   20 Sep 16 17:08:46   
   
   XPost: alt.philosophy.taoism, alt.buddha.short.fat.guy, alt.philosophy.zen   
   From: cuddly@mindless.com   
      
   On 9/20/2016 3:08 PM, {:-]))) wrote:   
   > liaM wrote:   
   >> Tang Huyen wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>> ...   
   >>> 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.   
   >>> ...   
   >>   
   >> The TTK is the reason Western drop-outs become hung-up moralists.   
   >   
   > No news is good news   
   > is a common enough saying.   
   >   
   > Turn off the media and many problems vanish.   
   >   
   > Doing away with right/wrong,   
   > one does what one does by nature   
   > and without judgement.   
   >   
   > With judgementalism arises the death of innocence.   
   >   
   > Children play to their hearts' content.   
   > They know how to live life, without knowing.   
   >   
   > Wise beyond their years,   
   > growing older as they become more involved,   
   > they forget what it was like to not know.   
   >   
   > To be young again is not impossible for some.   
   > Yet for many, apparently, it is a bit uncommon.   
   >   
      
      
   You've made your nest from comfort foods. Just now   
   I gave 10 Euros to a beggar who biked to France   
   all the way from Latvia.  Scarfing fast foods is no   
   way to live.  Praise goes to the biking beggar.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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