Guest guest Posted November 14, 2001 Report Share Posted November 14, 2001 «The prinsciple of Tao is spontanity», the Taoist Lao Tzu wrote. Heaven and Earth operates without «thought» or «goals», through processes which are Tzu-jan, «such by themselves». In order to return to Tao, man must discard knowledge, cease to make distinctions, refuse to impose his will on nature, recover the spontanity of a newborn child and allow the actions to be «such by themselves». He must reflect things like in a mirror, respond to them like an echo, without intermeditate thought, perfectly consentrated and perfectly relaxed. The first chapter of the «Book of Chuang Tzu», (3rd cent. B.C.) describes these freedom to «wander» around without worries (xiaoyao). These «wandering» is a state of infinite liberation from rigid categories and predestined goals, by spontaneously following one's inner nature. Chuang Tzu compares these state with the giant bird Peng who hover higly above our world down here, which is irrelevant far beneath it. Maybe he suggests that the reader must liberate himself from the limits before moving further into the book. Like your heart beats, the control of your body temperature and the replacement of millions of cells in your body each day, it happens by it self, spontaneous. Nothing has to be controlled. It simply is. Western religions believes in a higher beeing, a controller, a maker. But who controls God? Who guards the guard? This is Tzu-jan, spontanity. Spontanity implies emptiness and freedom. But can our rigid, linear cicada-similar minds ever grasp or appreciate it? Can a social-made and concept-bound "ego" ever reach these liberation and freedom from the past? FREE AND EASY WANDERING In the dark waters of the Northen ocean there swimmes a fish called K'un. It is so huge that I do not know how many thousand Li it is in size. This K'un can change into a bird called P'eng. Its back is so huge that I do not know how many thousand Li it is in breadth. When it moves, when it flies, it obscurs the sky like clouds with its wings. When on a voyage, this bird prepares to start for the Southern Ocean, the Celestial Lake. And in the "Records of Marvels" we read that when the P'eng flies southwards, the water is smitten for a space of 3000 Li around, while the bird itself mounts upon a great wind to a height of 90 000 Li, for a flight of six months' duration. There mounting aloft, the bird saw the moving white mists of spring, the dust-clouds, and the living things blowing their breaths among them. It wondered whether the blue of the sky was its real color, or only the result of distance which through all eternity is without end. And it saw that the things on Earth appeared the same to it....... Then, gliding upon the wind, with nothing save the clear sky above, and no obstacles in the way, it starts upon its journey southwards. A cicada and a young dove laughed, saying: «Now, when I fly with all my might, 'tis as much as I can do to get from tree to tree. And sometimes I do not reach, but fall to the ground midway. What then can be the use of going up 90,000 Li to start for the south?» - Chuang Tzu, ch 1. Attachment: (image/jpeg) Free and Easy Wandering.JPG [not stored] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 14, 2001 Report Share Posted November 14, 2001 Calling Lao Tzu a Taoist is a lot like calling Jesus a Christian On Thu, 15 Nov 2001 05:37:31 +0100 "Magne Aga" <magneaga writes: > > «The prinsciple of Tao is spontanity», the Taoist Lao Tzu wrote. [snip] http://come.to/realization http://www.atman.net/realization http://www.users.uniserve.com/~samuel/brucemrg.htm http://www.users.uniserve.com/~samuel/brucsong.htm ______________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/web/. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 16, 2001 Report Share Posted November 16, 2001 , Bruce Morgen <editor@j...> wrote: > > Calling Lao Tzu a Taoist is > a lot like calling Jesus a > Christian > > On Thu, 15 Nov 2001 05:37:31 +0100 "Magne Aga" <magneaga@m...> > writes: > > > > «The prinsciple of Tao is spontanity», the Taoist Lao Tzu wrote. > I recall reading that Freud said, in the last years of his life, something to the effect of: "Thank goodness I am not Freudian." Be willing to move on from the ideas others have imposed upon you. ~ Janak. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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