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:up: Synonym does not mean identical - it just means people use them without regard for any difference between them. In design, however, there is a cl...
April 15, 2021 at 17:18
I, too, need to work on being clearer. I have gone back and tried to remove some of this language from a recent post. I will try the same with this ex...
April 15, 2021 at 11:01
I don’t understand how you can replace objective reality with the Tao, as if the two were interchangeable, and also claim that they are mutually exclu...
April 15, 2021 at 09:41
Then why say ‘hope is bad’ if that’s not what you mean? If the TTC is ambiguous about value judgements, especially if it seems deliberate, then should...
April 15, 2021 at 09:31
Let me clarify my use of ‘irresponsible’: it was in particular reference to your unfounded claims that Lao Tzu thinks a certain way as distinct from -...
April 15, 2021 at 09:06
I thought I already did - here. But I’m not explaining myself very well here. I believe that the TTC structures all of reality as consisting basically...
April 15, 2021 at 08:48
Hi Ying, and welcome to the discussion. I’m interested in reading more of your personal perspective on the TTC here. I have been using the Yellow Brid...
April 14, 2021 at 08:30
I do think that our affected relation to this concept of ‘hope’ does distract us from the path, but that doesn’t mean there’s anything wrong with the ...
April 14, 2021 at 06:20
What I’m claiming is that there exists an underlying logical framework to the TTC that is... well, eternal. It contains none of my personal judgement ...
April 14, 2021 at 01:26
Some physicists (eg. Rovelli) say that the stuff of the world consists of interrelated events, whether we perceive them as consolidating (matter) or i...
April 12, 2021 at 12:17
I do agree with T Clark’s sentiment here. I think the TTC draws our attention to the relations in our experience, and invites us to look closer at wha...
April 12, 2021 at 10:52
Like this: I guess I just wanted you to acknowledge that you have no evidence for saying that Lao Tzu thinks the same way you do here. It’s all based ...
April 12, 2021 at 05:27
Yes, the TTC has 81 verses, but what they are about is an interpretation, not part of the original structure. The TTC is written using traditional, li...
April 12, 2021 at 03:39
Your interpretation is that wu-wei is better than benevolence and etiquette. That makes sense from your experience and understanding of the world, and...
April 12, 2021 at 01:46
I don’t agree with this. I think intellect that assumes a linear causal relation between potentiality and action is bound to conflict with wu-wei. But...
April 11, 2021 at 16:51
The structure of the TTC is the original structure, consisting of Chinese characters (each signifying the quality of an idea) arranged in a particular...
April 11, 2021 at 08:26
You seem to be arguing that every noun I use corresponds to a ‘thing’, and is therefore NOT the Tao. I think it’s important to point out that I’m not ...
April 11, 2021 at 06:48
I’m not sure what you’re ‘trying out’ here.
April 11, 2021 at 03:29
I think when we embody Te, we can do so through stillness (meditation), intuitively (your example of wu-wei) or self-consciously. I’m not implying tha...
April 11, 2021 at 03:23
Now look who’s behind... I wanted to mention this comment quickly, because you also mentioned it in response to @"Amity"’s comment. I do agree that th...
April 11, 2021 at 02:40
I will continue to warn against consolidating concepts and settling for metaphorical language in the TTC. I think that we limit our ability to underst...
April 11, 2021 at 01:52
I get that, but I don’t think what I’m saying is the other way around. I don’t think I’ve explained myself very well here. You don’t ‘get filial piety...
April 10, 2021 at 06:26
I maintain that any ambiguity is in our interpretation, not in the structure, of the TTC. The mystery, in my mind, is the difference. Because they are...
April 10, 2021 at 05:15
It can be a barrier, sure. But I think rejecting entire concepts, such as intellect or rationality, is as much a mistake as rejecting knowledge. Ratio...
April 10, 2021 at 00:47
The way I see it, te is the self-conscious process by which our relation to the Tao produces action/wu-wei/moral behaviour; meditation works to restru...
April 09, 2021 at 23:37
I struggled with this one initially, too. When I googled it, I found references to six close relatives, namely: father, mother, older brothers, younge...
April 09, 2021 at 08:14
No, I don’t believe it does. It says that the Tao is the unity, the mystery, the door to all wonders. The difference between observing its wonders or ...
April 09, 2021 at 05:21
This appearance of being against knowledge relates back to intentionality and wu-wei. This is where relying on English translations can lead us astray...
April 09, 2021 at 03:58
Well, considering the Tao is all-inclusive, I don’t see how they can not be part of the Tao. What is described here are human values when they exclude...
April 09, 2021 at 02:35
I think it can happen, but why fear this? Understanding the TTC is still not the Tao. It’s just a key to experiencing it. And at the end of the day, a...
April 08, 2021 at 14:52
Well, if you find a better word, be sure and let me know. For me, ‘relate’ is the basis of existence, the purest description of the seemingly infinite...
April 08, 2021 at 09:34
I find it’s like a written piece of music. The notes are presented in a formal structure, and each note, bar, melody and movement has a certain qualit...
April 07, 2021 at 15:04
Great response, Josh. :up:
April 07, 2021 at 12:02
Here’s my take: Probability is a quantified occurrence of a possible event under limited conditions. The difference between probability - a mathematic...
April 07, 2021 at 11:02
Sorry, spelling error: I meant tesseract. There’s no need to get into the technical stuff. Basically, the tesseract (4D) is to a cube (3D) as the cube...
April 07, 2021 at 09:35
My own use of ‘cascade’ was in reference to its secondary meaning: a process whereby something, typically information or knowledge, is successively pa...
April 07, 2021 at 08:50
This reflects what I have been saying about Chinese characters contributing quality to the idea, rather than consolidated concepts. It’s not so much a...
April 07, 2021 at 07:27
Timely, thank you. :blush:
April 07, 2021 at 06:53
I’m not suggesting it ‘dissolves all structures’ - only that it has no inherent hierarchical aspect: it is our affected relation which brings this in....
April 07, 2021 at 06:09
I do recognise the merits of this broader methodology - and I have learned a lot about the differences in each translation from your approach, so than...
April 07, 2021 at 04:28
Having and raising a child is a primitive option for effecting positive change in the world. We’re way past the point of needing to keep this up as hu...
April 06, 2021 at 04:23
In the meantime... Barrett describes instead three event structures: an ongoing interoception of affect constructed by internal and external sensory d...
April 06, 2021 at 04:05
Agreed. The idea is to recognise that the ‘original’ structure is the ultimate reference point - in the same way that righteousness is not the Tao and...
April 06, 2021 at 02:45
Thank you for this, and for the quotes - the more I look into Husserl, the more I find this to be a more accurate description. Idealism is far too con...
April 06, 2021 at 01:12
These, to me, are all interpretations that derive from taking the English translations at face value. The Chinese characters refer to the relational q...
April 06, 2021 at 01:02
I agree - that doesn’t mean they can’t inform or be informed by phenomenological idealism. It’s the similarities in relational structure that interest...
April 05, 2021 at 15:20
I refer to this as a ‘cascade’ because I think the multi-dimensional aspect to the structure is an important one: loyalty is one aspect of etiquette/w...
April 05, 2021 at 03:32
I’m not going to pretend that I have read much on Husserl, or that I can discuss phenomenological description with any academic confidence. But the wa...
April 05, 2021 at 01:22
That depends what area of science you’re looking into. The idea that all science is empirical is outdated by at least a century. The scientific method...
April 04, 2021 at 16:54
Actually, he’s a theoretical physicist, working in Quantum Field Theory.
April 04, 2021 at 12:48