XPost: alt.philosophy.taoism, alt.buddha.short.fat.guy, alt.philosophy.zen   
   From: invalid@invalid.invalid   
      
   {:-])))  wrote:   
   > 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.   
      
   Yeah, did somebody say it was?  Harmony is not dispensed on a point-reward   
   system.  It just happens to be flowing through where you are; if you're a   
   leaf you get picked up and carried along, if you're a rock you just get   
   ground down by hydraulic pressure.   
      
   >   
   > 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.   
   >   
      
   Literary aside: less words say more.   
      
   Given that saying, extrapolating it a bit gives "those who know don't say".   
    Maybe the old fart thought hyperbole was a useful tool.   
      
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