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element105
Joined: 14 Jun 2004
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 Posted: Mon Nov 21, 2005 11:10 pm Post subject: |
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| asterix wrote: |
| Thanks Element. Unfortunately, in the west we have become very materialistic and that is the source of some of our troubles. |
Quite true,same thing is happening in China as well |
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element105
Joined: 14 Jun 2004
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| Posted: Mon Nov 21, 2005 11:13 pm Post subject: |
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| RedRose wrote: |
| element, Tao means DaoDeJing, what about Chan? |
Tao is Tao(道),not daodejing.Chan is Chan(禅). |
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RedRose
Joined: 21 May 2004
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| Posted: Tue Nov 22, 2005 9:41 pm Post subject: |
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| element105 wrote: |
| Tao is Tao(道),not daodejing.Chan is Chan(禅). |
thanks.
but frankly, I still don't exactly know what is Tao or Chan for? in my imagination, Chan is a person sitting down for a long time, without a single word during the period of his sitting! and Speaking of Tao, it is like...when a person slaps on your left cheek, you would love to let him/her slap on your right cheek. or like....when a man and a woman are sleeping together, we should ask them to stop...suchlike. However, I think I can do neither Tao nor Chan. |
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element105
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Read "dao de jing" if your classical Chinese reading was not bad,it's not like what you thought,but all about philosophical ideas.
I remember the 'left/right cheek' story was from bible. |
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