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   From: invalid@invalid.invalid   
      
   Tang Huyen  wrote:   
   > On 11/7/2016 7:06 PM, Ned Ludd wrote:   
   >   
   >> The multitude is merry, as if on a holiday, or watching a parade.   
   >> I alone am inert, like an infant not yet a child.   
   >> Drifting, belonging nowhere.   
   >> Others have more than they need; I alone seem to have lost all.   
   >> I am a fool, yes, and confused.   
   >> Others are clear and bright; I am dull and dark.   
   >> Others are clever and assured; I am blunt and obscure,   
   >> Patient as the sea, drifting like the waves.   
   >> Everyone is busy, I alone am aimless and uncouth.   
   >> I am different; I take nourishment only from my mother.   
   >   
   > DDJ 20, Ta-kao:   
   >   
   > Between yea and nay, how much difference is there?   
   > Between good and evil, how much difference is there?   
   > What are feared by others we must fear; Vastly are   
   > they unlimited!   
   > The people in general are as happy as if enjoying a   
   > great feast. Or, as going up a tower in spring. I alone   
   > am tranquil, and have made no signs, Like a baby who   
   > is yet unable to smile; Forlorn as if I had no home to   
   > go to.   
   > Others all have more than enough, And I alone seem   
   > to be in want. Possibly mine is the mind of a fool,   
   > Which is so ignorant!   
   > The vulgar are bright, And I alone seem to be dull.   
   > The vulgar are discriminative, and I alone seem blunt.   
   > I am negligent as if being obscure; Drifting, as if being   
   > attached to nothing.   
   > The people in general all have something to do, And I   
   > alone seem to be impractical and awkward. I alone   
   > am different from others. But I value seeking   
   > sustenance from the Mother.   
   >   
   > Classic Daoism, in pristine purity. Clear like a bell.   
   >   
   > "Foxes have dens and birds have nests, but the Son of   
   > Man has no place to lay his head."   
   > He said to another man, "Follow me." But he replied,   
   > "Lord, first let me go and bury my father."   
   > "Let the dead bury their own dead, but you go and   
   > proclaim the kingdom of God."   
   >   
   > This last part, let the dead bury the dead, shows   
   > unconcern, but has never been practiced by his   
   > followers, it seems.   
      
      
   >The part, the Son of Man has no   
   > place to lay his head, is taken by Madame Guyon to   
   > teach the un-established mind.   
      
   That part's taken by me to be a pointing-out that social-contract-theory is   
   all about those dispensing and nothing about those being partaken of.   
      
      
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