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Tao Stoic 131

"Mind is the sole ruler of the body Master. Are not the physical laws ruling it too?"

"One may think it so, but ruling implies more or less a 'purpose', control. The True Word about physics and physical, ... say, laws, is that it all happens 'purposeless', 'passive', 'automatic'. We might say that the Sun's gravitation 'rules' the planets but the fact is that it is all utterly passive. Does the vessel rules the water inside? Rather is the water being kept in, and the vessel is just (being) as passive itself. Your'd better state: The Mind (actively) rules the body, the body is (passively) subject to physical laws. Active (i.e. purpose, control, ruling, emotion, ideation, Life, Mind, etc. etc. ) is incommensurate with passive physics (gravitation, electrics, force, magnetics etc. etc. ). Yet, the knowledge of physical Reality enables a mind to play about with physical rules, matching and conquering one against the other. The subject(ed) remains passive, physics, but the Mind controls it and benefits. Keep the two well apart in your Think then."


Ven 2005-01-24