XPost: alt.philosophy.taoism, alt.buddha.short.fat.guy, alt.philosophy.zen   
   From: wudao@wuji.net   
      
   Tang wrote about:   
      
   > The people who do not taste   
   >final release yet have scarcely any way of appreciating just   
   >what such a state is.   
      
   One time, not long ago, noname stated the sage would be unconcerned   
   about pressing a button that would be the doom of any mass of people.   
      
   I stressed how a Taoist Sage would not press any such a button.   
   Nor would a Taoist Sage ever be found in such a situation.   
      
   At times, being a stickler for semantics can be fun.   
      
   Those who don't appreciate the world,   
   in all of its Shen-glory, as being sacred, in its uncarved Pu,   
   might seek to change it, via some means.   
      
   Or wish upon a star it were other   
   than how it appears to them to be, as such.   
      
   I don't disagree with noname in principle, or Tao.   
   In fact, I quite agree.   
      
   My only quibble is with words, generally speaking.   
      
   Appreciating just what such a state is.   
      
   Be it, political, environmental, nation-state, ore of sum   
   other myth lodging in a wrestling match striking out.   
      
   At shadows while boxing in rings, some sokoban push.   
   They never pull. Pulling goes against their instruction manual.   
      
   Teeth of an ox are another story.   
      
   > The people who do not taste   
   >final release yet have scarcely any way of appreciating just   
   >what such a state is.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)