XPost: alt.philosophy.taoism, alt.philosophy.zen   
   From: wudao@wuji.net   
      
   Ummmmmmm went on to explain how he sees things with:   
      
   >The pickle the world is in today is the direct result of people writing   
   >gospels, sutras, torahs, upanishads, sacred texts and calling them "The   
   >Word of God".   
      
   That's an odd generalization.   
      
   You don't see the pickle as being a result of a cucumber   
   having been soaked in capitalism, commercialism, greed,   
   exploitation, territoriality, nor arising out of totalitarianism   
   steeped in atheism, nor anything other than the God-squad.   
      
   I call that one view one skewed view.   
      
   There can be many views, and are, in my viewing of views.   
      
   >God isn't allowed to add a chapter, or say "You got that wrong" or   
   >"That's a bit out of date now" Once you put your God in a straitjacket   
   >you're in big trouble.   
      
   It seems to me that you have an axe to grind with religion.   
   And you are blaming religion for a pickle you are in.   
      
   You see the world as being in a pickle.   
      
   Why you see it as such, may be a result of seeing, reading   
   and knowing too much media hype. Sensationalism may form   
   impressions such as the dew forms each morning.   
      
   Or maybe someone hit you on the head with a Bible   
   and you have yet to recover from the trauma.   
      
   >Once you think Tao is something you can find in a book, you're in danger   
   >of finding your mind clanged shut and rusted over.   
      
   Well then, you probably want to avoid looking for Tao in a book.   
   You won't find it there. It can't be there. You'd be in danger.   
   According to how you see things.   
      
   What I find, personally, is Tao as being in all things.   
   And that does not exclude anything.   
      
   It's in the ant in the grass.   
      
   Maybe you have seen that sort of Tao somewhere.   
   Seeing as how Tao is everywhere and it's all the same thing   
   no matter what word is used, as you have said.   
      
   If it's in piss and shit, it might be found anywhere.   
      
   But if you can't see it, or don't want to, then that's that.   
      
   - end of story -   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)