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Tao Stoic 8

"Master, the ownership of all about us."

"All is property of all living things. It even goes for private property. Seneca said it: 'what you possess and call your own, is really public property, or mankind's property for that matter.' (Letter 83)

Either you, yourself, own the whole planet with everything on it, or we, living things, all are possessors or borrowers of all there is. Every solution in between these extremes, of necessity causes unbalance, disharmony in Nature, destroys the Way, is bound to produce war, slaughter, rape, devastation and the total destruction of it all. Then, no possessing is possible because there are no possessors. We have to choose between the two, AND live according to that choice. Mark well that in the first choice, everybody must agree with YOU." [17], [19]


Ven 2005-01-24