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From: aem@mthvax.cs.miami.edu (a.e.mossberg)
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Subject: Re: Taoism
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Date: 17 Mar 90 21:37:41 GMT
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In article <14530@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> ciula@cis.ohio-state.edu (Kim Ciula) writes:
%
%	The tao that can be told
%	is not the eternal Tao.
%	The name that can be named
%	is not the eternal Name.
%
%	The unnamable is the eternally real.
%	Naming is the origin
%	of all particular things.


In <14554@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> aloise@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Jim Aloise) writes:
>How about a discussion of what this means - as far as we're able to talk about
>the unnamable, that is.


It must be experienced to be understood.

aem

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a.e.mossberg / aem@mthvax.cs.miami.edu / aem@umiami.BITNET / Pahayokee Bioregion
Start with the sun, and everything will slowly, slowly happen.  - D.H.Lawrence