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Tao Stoic 121

"There was a slogan Master, that pseudologists used to make a pseudology of. It said: 'the whole is more than the sum of the parts'. They made it into the 'Gestalt Pseudology' [147."

"Indeed, pseudologists make 'Much ado about nothing'. The slogan is nothing more than the definition of: Structure, of Ordening. When you have a chair, and take away, subtract, all physical aspects of it, what remains is the structure of this particular chair, which is amazingly similar to the likewise structures of other, similar chairs. It is thus an abstraction, is IDEA. But when subtracting all physics, it means in fact that what is left is NON-Physics, is, therefore, Mind or idea, the only nonphysicum known. It shows clearly that no matter how structure, ordening, SEEMS to be attached to the object in hand, yet, it remains solely an aspect in our Minds. 'The universe and I came into being together; the myriad things of the creation and I are One', says Chuangtse. This is absolutely correct. The Order, Structure, IS idea, is therefore nowhere else but in my (your) Mind. We can communicate just because both of us have them."


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