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Subject:Re: Tao is not a deity
Date:Sun, 27 Jul 2003 04:15:20 GMT
From:Messer Xin <xin@woc.com.org>
Newsgroups:alt.buddha.short.fat.guy,alt.philosophy.taoism,talk.religion.buddhism,alt.zen,alt.religion.buddhism.tibetan
On Sat, 26 Jul 2003 23:49:27 -0400, naked ape wrote
(in message <bZHUa.5995$v9.2463@nwrddc01.gnilink.net>):

> "MDHJWH" <mdhjwh@iprimus.com.au> wrote in message
> news:808df0f8.0307210207.568a7792@posting.google.com...
>> buddhashortfatguy@yahoo.com (Leebert) wrote in message
> news:<e2d95f55.0307201906.481e179@posting.google.com>...
>> 
>>>> That which can be named is not the tao.
>> 
>> ..............then how does anyone here know what it is they are taking
> about?
>> 
>> Ayn Marx
> 
> The Tao Te Ching describes how the Tao works, what it does, and what it's
> like, but it never says what it is. My guess is that the Tao is simply the
> Law of Equivalence, the math Nature (energy/matter) abides by as it
> manifests itself. Nature doesn't have a will, but it does have law, the
> Tao...  Ape;)

Yeah. Sure.

-- 

 as for makin him a god
 well he didnt have much use for gods
 cuz all they do is stare in a mirror
 marvelling at their own creation
 
 kinda hard to strike up a conversation with people like that ya know
             ---dar