Ron Hogan

[Nungali]

I haven't seen this one before .... and never noticed a discussion here on it .   

 

  

Eg 

 

Ch 1

 

 

If you can talk about it,
it ain’t Tao.
If it has a name,
it’s just another thing.

Tao doesn’t have a name.
Names are for ordinary things.

Stop wanting stuff;
it keeps you from seeing what’s real.
When you want stuff,
all you see are things.

Those two sentences
mean the same thing.
Figure them out,
and you’ve got it made.

[Cobie]

@Nungali "Don't spend too much time thinking about stupid shit." 

(DDJ ch. 20 à la Ron Hogan https://terebess.hu/english/tao/ron.html#Kap20 )

 

"Chinese … I can't read or speak it myself”.

(Ron Hogan, Terebess DDJ intro)

 

 

Edited yesterday at 09:04 PM by Cobie

[Nungali]

The more of it I read, the more I enjoy it    .

 

 

Chapter 42 starts out
with some cosmic mumbo-jumbo
about Tao making one,
one making two,
two making three,
and three making everything else.

I don’t know what it means,
and, frankly,
I wouldn’t worry about it too much.

[stirling]

OK... so I think I want to see a "Dao According to Nungali" thread!

[Nungali]

5 hours ago, stirling said:

OK... so I think I want to see a "Dao According to Nungali" thread!

 

No worries ;  be patient . I shall don my robe and take up my staff and cross the river and wander in the rainforest a bit ... on my return I shall  enlighten you all   ( I just gotta finish scrubbing the mold out  from between the bathroom tiles first )  .