Sunday, December 9, 2012

The Tao of Spirituality.

Under ontological dualism, the mind becomes more and more confused by paradox and to work their way out of this confusion patriarchal theologians seek the abstract to escape from the natural world defined as a seductive honey trap. The Hindu Vedas called this “Maya” a mere illusion. The Christians seek liberation from nature in a state of consciousness bereft of nature or the sense experience called “Nirvana”. In eastern spirituality which later gave birth to Buddhism and Zen further developed this out of ancient Taoism to reinsist in the reality of the real. The, ancient female way of fusing spirit and matter in non – coercive union. Life is a dance, a flow of events, the desire of energy to form itself in its own rhyth ms, an organic will. It is defined as Maya, “illusion”, “evil’, mere matter. Denying this man tries to impose his own contrary will, in the process he “destroys nature”, and thereby himself, for he is nature. -Vedas- Tao --- there is a theory confusedly formed, born before heaven and earth. Silent and void, it stands alone and does not change; it goes around and is not weary. It is capable of being the matter of the world. It has no name so it is called “the Way”, it is further described as receding, receding - perceived as far away, turning back…. Tao is that form from which one cannot for a single minute depart. That from which one may depart is not Tao.

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