Path: typhoon.sonic.net!feed.news.sonic.net!newsfeed4.cidera.com!newsfeed1.cidera.com!Cidera!peer1-sjc1.usenetserver.com!usenetserver.com!easynews!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail From: nadinekwong@aol.com (Nadine Kwong) Newsgroups: alt.philosophy.taoism Subject: Re: Zen-Tao Date: 25 Apr 2002 04:26:14 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Lines: 45 Message-ID: References: <3cc5a66e.19662773@netnews.worldnet.att.net> <20020423231257.16853.00004922@mb-fx.news.cs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 64.12.103.171 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1019733974 31951 127.0.0.1 (25 Apr 2002 11:26:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 25 Apr 2002 11:26:14 GMT Xref: typhoon.sonic.net alt.philosophy.taoism:98582 bravenewwhirl@postmaster.co.uk (BraveNewWhirl) wrote in message news:... > > If Lao Tzu was a librarian, perhaps scrolls and > > silks existed containing all sorts of stories, eh? > > > > >Celestial LaoWombat > > >remove "-remove-" from address to make valid > > If Lao Tzu was a librarian, the Tao Te Ching was a stack of dust jackets. so what does it tell ya, o thou studiously un-read one, that the taoist mythos place(d)(s) laozi's Path to the realization of Tao passing squarely through the musty dusty tomes that filled the stacks? according to his legendary [ME *legende*, fr. MF & ML; MF *legende*, fr. L, fem. of *legendus*, gerundive of *legere* to gather, select, read; akin to Gk *legein* to gather, say, *logos* speech, word, reason] (his) taostory, th' old master abandoned know ledge only after a long long life time spent cracking open books 'n sucking on their spine; drawing out and absorbing their inner most contents, savoring 'em as he fed. now hit the jing, grass hopper; so ya can then hit the same Tao what laozi travelled. immortally, miss nadine (da biblioteca chinesa de macau)