XPost: alt.philosophy.taoism, alt.buddha.short.fat.guy, alt.philosophy.zen   
   From: wudao@wuji.net   
      
   noname wrote:   
   > {:-]))) wrote:   
   >> dagnabit wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> the lack comes from those who don't understand   
   >>> the true self.   
   >>   
   >> I see many a lack-key in semantics as those who don't   
   >> understand what someone means when they use words.   
   >>   
   >> Hence, they continually talk past each, so-called, other.   
   >>   
   >> It is as if the left hands of the universe did not know   
   >> what all its other hands and feet and eyes and ears do.   
   >>   
   >> How could they, the universe might ask itself, since   
   >> all of them are left, so to speak, without knowing.   
   >>   
   >> - in the bags of skin encapsulated ego   
   >>   
   >   
   >bags of ego-encapsulated skin?   
   >   
   >Ego seems more about stuff than self.   
      
   In some jargon-filled voids, ego mediates between id   
   and superego and is more of a psychic structure.   
      
   In another sense of a truth of the term, having a super   
   large ego one might be called a maniac of sorts.   
      
   For some paradigms, there is no self.   
   No true self. No false self. No ego.   
      
   In other paradigms, there is no permanent self.   
      
   When dagnabit uses his terms, he means what he means.   
   When you use the same terms, you mean what you mean.   
      
   Whether you both mean the same thing might mean   
   the weather is the same or different that you have in mind.   
      
   Water can be a great metaphor. The pure, true, self of water   
   might change its form but not its contents. It may be contented   
   to take any shape or form it's poured into no matter if it be you,   
   or me, or dagnabit being free of all but absolulte formlessness.   
      
   It may change from innumerable unique flakes of snow, to hail,   
   to make dew on the leaves it finds its self and selves on.   
      
   Perhaps it minds, at times.   
      
   - on the surfaces   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)