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Tao Stoic 85

"Master, is there never a Not-True Word, in say, the Kung Fu series?"

"Of course there is, and so is there in Confucius, the Tao Te Ching, in Socrates, Mencius, Epictetus, even, as we saw [12] in Wells. Masterpieces do not come without some flaw. But as it is, you know very well that sensible people only use that what is True and good in whatever they read. That is why there really are no books totally without value."

"Could you give an example of a flaw in Kung Fu?"

"We read in (15): 'Because our soul Mind does not count in time, it merely records growth!' Just the opposite is true. Our Mind digitalises, i.e. makes everything of the analog, the time, the process of adding and adding, into distinct steps, therefore counting. Besides, the recording of growth is by 'events', hence is in time, and in slices, counting. Growth = Change = Events = Countable = Time. You see, a flaw, but one that makes you think, therefore valuable."


Ven 2005-01-24