Aaron
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|  Subject: Tao Te Ching Chapter 40  Tue Oct 02, 2007 4:15 pm | |
| | Quote: | 40. Return is the motion of the Way...
Return is the motion of the Way.
Softening is its function.
All things in the cosmos arise from being.
Being arises from non-being. |
What do you think this means?
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| | Subject: Re: Tao Te Ching Chapter 40 Tue Oct 02, 2007 7:39 pm | |
| | Does not connect with me. |
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| | Subject: Re: Tao Te Ching Chapter 40 Wed Oct 03, 2007 10:25 am | |
| What if you replaced the words "the Way" with "the divine" or "God" or "life/death"? Would that help?
Here's another hint. Think of Autumn...
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| | Subject: Re: Tao Te Ching Chapter 40 Wed Oct 03, 2007 8:41 pm | |
| sorry, you know those blobs where you can see a shape if you look hard enough.
Well what's happening here is meaning is just not emerging for me. Sorry! |
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| | Subject: Re: Tao Te Ching Chapter 40 Fri Oct 05, 2007 9:05 am | |
| I view it as a commentary on the cycle of life, death, and rebirth that exists everywhere in nature and perhaps outside it as well.
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