XPost: alt.buddha.short.fat.guy, alt.philosophy.taoism, alt.philosophy.zen   
   From: wudao@wuji.net   
      
   Wilson wrote:   
      
   > ... The actions that lead   
   >to the dissolution of the Roman republic grew out of the elites first   
   >ignoring the people and then persecuting and eventually killing their   
   >advocates. It was the continued repression that lead to dictatorship.   
      
   Once upon a time there was a butterfly   
   who fluttered across the Rubicon. Flapping wings, muttering   
   something about playing dice with the universe.   
      
   Babylon arises in the heart-valves, phoenix-like.   
   Buddhism puts out the fire for those interested in fires.   
   It removes arrows without asking who fired the first shot.   
      
   Zhuangzi spoke of gnarly trees and a honkless goose.   
   Of being of use and of being useless and how dao are.   
      
   The Way that won't work for some people some of the time   
   might work for other people at other times. To cast a vote   
   or cast a die can be what some people do in a nick of time.   
      
   Tang asks about methods and observes problems.   
   How can one see one's self without a mirror.   
   If one has no heart, how can one be so very empty.   
      
   Between what is on a sleeve and what leaps out of a chest   
   when one's heart is not into something it means something.   
      
   Being whole-hearted one might give one's all.   
   Being heavy-hearted one might be with one.   
      
   Being light-hearted, one could float for a spell.   
   Both Taoism and Buddhism may tend to arise after two,   
   if not prior to one as wells.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)