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   From: wudao@wuji.net   
      
   noname wrote:   
   > Tang had written:   
   >   
   >> The regimen of grace and the regimen of survival   
   >> can scarcely be reconciled, for those who have not entered   
   >> the former.   
   >   
   >Maybe we need to discuss that one, because it's only the reconciling of the   
   >two which allows, in the sense of permitting or enabling, those who have   
   >not entered the former to sit between the two and recognize the whole, thus   
   >stepping into it a little at a time.   
      
   When Cook Ting carved oxen, he did it with grace, and style.   
      
   To suppose he received grace from on high   
   is probably not the same thing as depicted in the Taoist text.   
      
   To hack might be how some people are able to survive in life.   
   Another survival tactic is also mentioned in Cook Ting's discourse.   
   Both of those ways, or Tao, require resharpening often.   
      
   Of the three, ways, or Tao, all three of which are Tao,   
   the one mentioned as being the Tao of Cook Ting   
   would be more a Tao of Taoism than is   
   grace from above.   
      
   Ting's blade was ever-sharp.   
   He knew his way thru an ox and the guy who watched   
   and listened said he learned how to live life.   
      
   Such a way can be called Tao.   
      
   Grace is another spin on another story.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)