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The Chinese literally reads "the highest Te is not Te, therefore it has Te. The lowest Te doesn't lack Te, and therefore is without Te. " Tao Te Ching: The Way of Virtue - Google Books Good thing there's more than one translation......

There's something about "studying the Tao" as a means of ensuring right practice.

Apparently the "it" to be cultivated is the "Te" of 'Te Ching.' So we need to know the meaning of "Te."

The problem, of course, is: what would be a full-fledged Taoist practice? I think it includes divination and making offerings to ancestral ghosts.

Howdy Paladin, What part are you agreeing with? "Cultivate it in yourself; its virtue shall be true" What is it to cultivate the Tao? And what is 'virtue'?

An update would be ok. It seems that a territorial dispute has something to do with it. Something about Jerusalem. If I recall, when Israel was formed, Palestinians were specifically excluded from it, which evidently factored into their unwillingness to go along with other agreements.

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Epic stuff, Alex!

Since attachments may be based on fear, it might make sense to look at fear as an aspect of hell: From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naraka_(Buddhism)....The mentality of a being in the hells corresponds to states of extreme fear and helpless anguish in humans.

I just read that witches are persecuted in India. Why do you think intolerance is a doctrinal matter specific to only one religion?

James Dewar's voice was perfect for beautiful slow and soulful love songs like "Sailing": YouTube - ROBIN TROWER- SAILING I am sailing, I am sailing Home again, 'cross the sea I am sailing, stormy waters To be near You, to be free I am flying, I am flying Like a bird 'cross the sky I am...

Is a dead link. It's not uncommon to see Christian/Muslim comparisons/contrasts that highlight doctrinal differences and claim distortions. Much of this is thinly veiled political discourse rather than an honest attempt to see how different the religions really are. We've seen some of those...

I think it's more like light going into the head. Choice of color is almost unconscious.

YouTube - Robin Trower-The Fool and Me. The Fool and Me Traveling that wind and laugh at the crowd, ummm the fool and me Howl at the moon baby yeah out loud, The fool and me And ohh oh, where ever we go We keep the spirit free Ohh nobody knows No one but the fool and me Stretching on out...

Just remember it's a matter of mind over matter in the sense that your system may be expecting the alcohol, which is something you can deal with.

Awesome. What a lovely family. All the best!

Perhaps as a source of insight? I sometimes feel that suffering is irrelevant or unnecessary or that is serves no purpose, just part of a chaotic universe. I think it was an incomplete thought on my part. When confronted with things we experience as aversive, things may not be temporary enough!

I'm holding out for the fortune cookie that reads: "Nothing but blue skies and sublime certainty from now on."

You mean some people are not subject to the transitoriness of it all? Please see my response to Shawn's post above. I don't know if either one of you wants to argue that a universality (change in the phenomenal realm) is just a subjective impression. But if you do, I'd like to hear the argument.