Say to them, 'if they think it is because then they must be able to trace all things back to a beginning?'
To say this is the way things are due to something is not the organic view but the linear chain-of-command view.
And no, we can't change it.
And no, that is not passive indifference or determinism as what/who determines? To speak of determinisms also brings back the linear chain-of-command idea.
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Tao Wow | Daily Cup of Tao
2 comments:
This is making me think about karma and my iPod. When I set it to shuffle, the path is set (even though it's supposedly done by a random number generator. ) There is no changing what song #36 is going to be even if I don't know what it is in advance. But if I reset it, a whole new path is laid out. This seems like some kind of metaphor for resetting the "shuffle" of our lives. I think some practices, like meditation, qigong, help to reset the shuffle.
Ta Wan, So true, so true.
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