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Tao Stoic 14

'I am sad Master for you. Never to see the clouds, never to see the sun in the water, or the plumage of a bird.'

'Yet, sometimes it is the eyes that blind a man.'

'How can this be?'

'Because he can see, he does not look. Is the bird only the colour of its plumage? To be one with the universe is to know: bird, sun, cloud. How much shall a man lose, if he then loses his eyes?' (Kung Fu 2 )

The Master said: "How wise that Master Po was! It is we that construct in our Minds the Order, the Beauty about us. This ideation, this knowledge is only partly impaired by a loss of one sense. How blind we are when we don't SEE this!"


Ven 2005-01-24