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  4. Posted · Edited by moment

    3 hours ago, OldDog said:

     

    Really?  Is there some reason not to identify the Jed Stuart you quoted on several occasions?

     

    One of the things I like about this thread is when I read a particularly memorable quote I can look up the person quoted and learn about them ... who were they, what was the social, philosophical context for the quote. On more than one occasion, this has lead me to look at the figure more in depth and delve into other writings.

     

    Did not mean to provoke a fire storm ... but I honestly don't know who you have cited. 

     

     

     

    He taught me a lot.  He was a friend and teacher of mine for 35+ years. He is no one famous. He is no one you can look up. He has been dead for 21 years, my quoting him is just my way of remembering and honoring him. Sorry if that does not fit your criteria of quotable people. I would suggest just letting his quotes stand or fall at face value.

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  5. Posted · Edited by moment

    Take your pick: Seems to be several thousand of them.  Here are a few.
    No Clampett types though. But, then again the Dao Bums site seems to be gravitating to stereotypical thinking more and more instead of Tao.
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    have scales fall from (one's) eyes

    To suddenly be able to see a situation clearly and accurately.-- Farlex Dictionary of Idioms. © 2015 Farlex, Inc, all rights reserved.
     

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    Acts 9:18  New International Version
    Immediately, something like scales fell from Saul's eyes, and he could see again

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  16. Posted · Edited by moment

    2 hours ago, Lightseeker said:

    Hm. Does this apply for Kriya yoga of Paramahansa Yogananda?

    Try reading the posts instead of asking the same questions or replying without thinking. You're only selling yourself short because you miss crucial details and have done this a lot already. ---Earl Grey

     

    Study any Yoga Kriya with a qualified teacher and your personal Akashic Record will automatically become available at the right time. 

    Patience, study and practice.--- moment

     

     I have an interest in meditation, and have been doing Kriya yoga for many years.!--Lightseeker

     

    Try to figure out the point.

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  19. Posted · Edited by moment

    I apologize that this is not a painting. But, I believe that Ai Weiwei's statement above needs more elaboration.

    Straight (2008-12)

    Artwork description & Analysis: Both a stylized representation of an earthquake and an image of its effects, Straight is a statement about a specific instance of governmental corruption and negligence. The province of Sichuan suffered massive casualties in an earthquake of 2008, leaving 90,000 dead or missing. Over 5,000 were children killed when poorly constructed schools collapsed on top of them. Ai, a self-taught architect, was outraged to discover that this could have been avoided. Both a memorial and a call to action, Straight is part of the artist's broader effort to hold the Chinese government responsible and urge it to take preventative steps to avoid future disaster. It took him four years to complete this monumental floor sculpture --almost 40 feet long and 20 feet wide - weighing 200 tons. To construct it, he collected the bent and broken steel reinforcement bars that were part of the badly built schools. He commissioned metal workers to straighten and mend them until they looked as they would have before the earthquake. He arranged the bars in waves that resemble the oscillations in an earthquake on a seismograph. The fissures between them resemble fault lines. The thousands of individual components reference the individual lives lost, a typical feature of Ai's symbolism. 

    The Chinese government did not appreciate the attention the artist drew to this national embarrassment and this marked the beginning of an especially turbulent period in Ai's adversarial relationship with Chinese authorities.

    Steel reinforcing bars - Royal Academy of Arts, London

    "Straight" upon completion in the workshop. (Screen capture from the video above.)

     

     

     

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  22. Posted

    18 minutes ago, Limahong said:

     

    Discussion On The Way.

    And get foul-mouthed along the way.

    Then move further and further away.

     

    It's all about life and how to live it to our fullest.

    It's about fighting and insulting to the bloodiest.

    Admin steps in & try to make things the holiest.

     

    So basically, if its about living,

    But broadly about fighting,

    and attaining peace and contentment,

    and getting pieces and resentment,

    we could say that is enough of a mission statement.

    but insufficient as an understatement.

     

    "Way" refers to the Daoist concept. 

    "Away" refers to TDB's best practice.

     

    But we have people of many different influences here communicating.

    We have also people of different cronyism - purporting open sharing. 

     

    Doesn't mean one has to label themselves a Daoist.

    They label themselves/others whatever until Admin...

     

     "A living person" is fine. 

    But "Way" badly defined.

     

    (Dead people don't talk much.)

    (Because of Admin's holy grail...)

     

    - Anand

     

    You did a much better job of getting to it than I did.  Thank you.

  25. Posted · Edited by moment

    On 8/15/2018 at 10:37 AM, Marblehead said:

    The Dao Bums

     

    Discussion On The Way.

     

    It's all about life and how to live it to our fullest.

     

    So basically, if its about living, and attaining peace and contentment, we could say that is enough of a mission statement.

     

    "Way" refers to the Daoist concept.  But we have people of many different influences here communicating.

     

    Doesn't mean one has to label themselves a Daoist.  "A living person" is fine.  (Dead people don't talk much.)

     

     

    general and open-ended mission statement

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