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   noname to wudao@wuji.net   
   Re: No escape   
   12 Oct 16 09:23:30   
   
   XPost: alt.philosophy.taoism, alt.philosophy.zen   
   From: invalid@invalid.invalid   
      
   {:-])))  wrote:   
   > noname wrote:   
   >> {:-]))) wrote:   
   >>> Ummmmmmm wondered:   
   >>>   
   >>>> ...   
   >>>   
   >>> You seem to have experienced some light, inside a room,   
   >>> inside of you, that your living Master gave you the key to.   
   >>>   
   >>> And you would like everyone to find that same light,   
   >>> that you say is inside everyone, but, in your view,   
   >>> only a living Master can provide the key to.   
   >>   
   >> This whole business of "a secret room" with a "key" that's full of "light"   
   >> seems like a pile of wannabe crap to me, obviously I don't understand   
   >> what's being talked about.   
   >   
   > Obviously,   
   > if you experienced what he experienced, you'd use different words.   
   >   
   > Assuming all words such as, Tao, satori, etc., mean the same thing   
   > you have, without any doubt, experienced what he's pointing to.   
   >   
   > You may say you Know the Way.   
   > When you're in the Zone, you Know how things go.   
   >   
   > You follow what he might call a light that shines.   
   >   
   > You watched as your father worked.   
   > Ummmmmmm might suggest you picked it up from him.   
   > That he was your very own living Master.   
   >   
   > Rationalizations can be fabricated.   
   > When in the Zone. Naturally.   
   >   
   > To be in sync with Tao, now, is a gift.   
   > Tang might call it grace.   
   >   
   > I simply call it the present.   
   > Others call it by that word too.   
   >   
   > It's not all too difficult to see.   
   > It could be said everyone is swimming in it.   
   > Some float. Some drown. Such is life.   
   >   
      
   I dunno about all this.  I've been watching two guys slug it out.  Or maybe   
   that isn't what I've been watching at all, maybe it's been foreplay.  I   
   think you're trying to talk about the same thing, but you're getting in   
   each other's  own way.  I don't understand much this morning.   
      
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