XPost: alt.philosophy.taoism, alt.buddha.short.fat.guy, alt.philosophy.zen   
   From: wudao@wuji.net   
      
   Wilson wrote in response to noname:   
      
   > From the human consciousness point of view grace does seem random.   
   >Like from out of nowhere it descends upon one, without apparent cause.   
      
   Like a good screen-play, twists and turns are in the plot   
   but those who have not read the play are kept out of the loop.   
      
   >Good works can't make it happen, good thinking won't manifest it on   
   >demand, and you definitely can't force it into being not even with lots   
   >and lots of effort.   
      
   Patience is a virtue. It's the evidence of things unseen.   
   Hope is another virtue. Its power is beyond intellectual knowing.   
      
   >I'm with you on the part where it can be forestalled.  And ignored too   
   >probably.  It seems I may have ignored and misplaced more grace than I   
   >should ever have expected to have received.   
   >   
   >But it's all good in the end.   
      
   All things work together for good, for the good guys.   
   For the bad guys, they get to rot for all eternity.   
      
   Taking grace literally might be taking it too far or not far enough.   
      
   Myth and metaphor make the world go as it goes in the present.   
      
   Life unfolds all by itself, in some paradigms. A great gift of sorts.   
   Seeing it as having components of grace or not-grace can be how   
   to see what occurs when life is carved in such a fashion of sight.   
      
   To suppose there is a thing, called life, can be supposed.   
      
   In the beginning, there,   
   a word, life, was mentioned and the story began   
   as two emerged on to the stage of time in space for   
   the unreasonable effectiveness of story-telling.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)