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   From: wudao@wuji.net   
      
   noname wrote:   
   > brian had written:   
   >> Tang wrote a bit about how:   
   >>   
   >>> ... there are systems of thought that relegate all such   
   >>> concepts, and all concepts, to a level lower than the   
   >>> highest level, ...   
   >>   
   >> There cannot be a system of thought which relegates all concepts to a   
   >> lower level that isn't itself relying on the concepts of 'higher' and   
   >> 'lower' to do so.   
      
   The TTC begins with what I often, but not always, refer to   
   as TTC 1.1, and TTC 1.2; the lines about, "chang dao"   
   and, "chang ming" with a fei before each chang.   
      
   It then goes on to articulate Wu and Yu,   
   and places them on equal footing.   
      
   It takes two feet to walk.   
      
   With only one foot, one might sparrow hop.   
   And with no feet to stand on, under   
   standing might be at a form   
   of a stand still.   
      
   Some people can walk more than two feet.   
   And some others with feet have more than two.   
      
   When the one with no feet asked the one with many,   
   how do you manage, with all those many feet,   
   the centipede began to think and   
   then, getting snared,   
   tripped up.   
      
   Normally, he said, I simply start the first one,   
   and all the others follow along, wu-wei and wu-xin.   
      
   >> Layering thought into levels is a form of   
   >> intellectual snobbery.   
   >>   
   >   
   >It may ring of snobbery, but I think it is a useful method of viewing   
   >thought's technical aspects, and there are various methods of layering   
   >thought.   
      
   With in your thought-scheme-of-things, you include Mystery, miao.   
      
   Among the many shadows of Dao I like to box with   
   there is Xuan, and what I call Xuan-Xuan.   
      
   Xuan within Xuan can be called, the Gate.   
      
   The Gate might be romanized as, men.   
      
   "xuan zhi you xuan,   
    zhong miao zhi men."   
      
   Yet this form of men is no ordinary form.   
      
   It's more of a picture word I am unable to picture.   
   My newsreader can't do that.   
      
   I could link to it, but I'll allow that link to be missing.   
   And I shall call  *that*  the missing link.   
      
   - as one might only imagine   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)