Letters to the Editor
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The Tao & Confucius
Boy, the unhappy skeptics turned out for this one. Not that we might not yet hear from the unhappy fundamentalists. But the whole thing’s really boring, has been for a long time now, that fool Jerry Falwell and that fool Richard Dawkins banging heads.
Neither understands egolessness. You want reason, stop thinking. That’s where Einstein got the theory of relativity. From intuition, which can turn out to be more rational than anyone supposed. You want morality, stop believing and stop trying to be good and faithful. Don’t do it by ideas, but by experiencing the ground of being, and then see soup kitchens without proselytizing and shaming, and with people making their own soup.
I’m on the Taoist side of its several thousand year old difference of opinion with Confucianists. Here we have atheist Confucianists and religionist Confucianists wasting our time duking it out in the public square over the not-real. Don’t mind if the atheist Taoists and agnostic Taoists and the non-personal higher power Taoists and the theist Taoists - who all get along just fine - ignore the ignorant out-of-touch loud-mouths.
Excuse me – I let a little attachment sneak in there. It happens.
And as for the book in question, there’s not enough here to know where she’s going with her adventure. Good luck.
Best,
Monty
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