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Should the Dao be spoken?

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Should the Dao be spoken?

 

At which point does knowledge meet wisdom?

True wisdom only flows when all knowledge is cast out

To speak of the Dao is in itself a distraction from accomplishment

Those who seek to teach remain fixed in the classroom

 

The Dao, like light, contains a spectrum

But the spectrum is not the Dao

The Dao is the master of the laws it creates

Untouchable through its infinite choice

 

To know the Dao, many questions arise

Continuous cycles of learning and relearning

We seek others out in a quest for understanding

Yet, the final answer never comes and cannot be taught with words

 

The Dao in it's purest form requires no thought

It's many levels triumphed in silence

Once you know this, you need ask no more

As a student of your own

 

 

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Silence may be the purest medium

 

For the transmission of truth.

 

But it makes for

 

Damned short books

 

And awful dinner parties.

 

 

Wayne Liquorman

 

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An aspiring Taoist asked to enter a temple and attach himself to a priest for training.

 

"Very well," said the Priest , "but all students here observe the vow of silence. You will be allowed to speak only once in every twelve years.

 

After the first twelve years, the student said, "The bed is too hard."

 

After another twelve years, he said, "The food sucks."

 

Twelve more years later, after thirty-six years of hard work and meditation, he said, "I quit."

 

"Good," said the Priest, "all you have been doing is complain."

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Silence may be the purest medium

 

For the transmission of truth.

 

But it makes for

 

Damned short books

 

And awful dinner parties.

 

 

Wayne Liquorman

 

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Haha I like that ;)

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The priest and the nun...

 

The nun asks the priest "Please, tell me about truth."

 

The priest points outside to the moon. "There is the truth, but my finger is only the words. The finger cannot also be the truth"

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Well it sure makes it easy to look {sound?} wise when you say nothing...

 

you mean if I say nothing, then I am 'obviously' the one who 'knows' and does not speak, lol.

 

I think from now on I am going to crash conversations with my silence, and when people get annoyed, I will sagely tell them how I am wise by keeping my mouth shut, and implicitly imply that they are not, by speaking...

 

I will sleep so well at night knowing how much better I am than others :D

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"There was no point (sitting silently) freezing your nadgers off on top of some mountain while communing with the Infinite unless you could rely on a lot of impressionable young women to come along occasionally and say ‘Gosh’."

(Terry Pratchett: Maskerade).

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Well it sure makes it easy to look {sound?} wise when you say nothing...

 

you mean if I say nothing, then I am 'obviously' the one who 'knows' and does not speak, lol.

 

I think from now on I am going to crash conversations with my silence, and when people get annoyed, I will sagely tell them how I am wise by keeping my mouth shut, and implicitly imply that they are not, by speaking...

 

I will sleep so well at night knowing how much better I am than others :D

That would likely be a good way to influence people to not like you. You won't be bothered by "friends" because you won't have any.

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That would likely be a good way to influence people to not like you. You won't be bothered by "friends" because you won't have any.

 

I thought he was being sarcastic...

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I should have known!

Hehehe. Belly laughs. But then, one never knows for sure where I am coming from; most times I don't even know either until after the fact.

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I would say that Dao is the noisy nothingness which there could be.

 

All my senses are quite aware of its 'let the good time roll' nature.

 

So, I guess this is a way of saying that while we can speak about it, it seems to speak louder than words.

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