At 04:32 PM 3/7/2008, you wrote:
> THEN was not non-existent nor existent: there was no realm of air,
> no sky beyond it.
>What covered in, and where? and what gave shelter? Was water there,
>unfathomed depth of water?
>Death was not then, nor was there aught immortal: no sign was there,
>the day's and night's divider.
>That One Thing, breathless, breathed by its
>own nature: apart from it was nothing whatsoever.
>Darkness there was: at first concealed in darkness this All was
>indiscriminated chaos.
>All that existed then was void and form less: by the great power of
>Warmth was born that Unit.
>Thereafter rose Desire in the beginning, Desire, the primal seed and
>germ of Spirit.
>Sages who searched with their heart's thought discovered the
>existent's kinship in the non-existent.
>Transversely was their severing line extended: what was above it
>then, and what below it?
>There were begetters, there were mighty forces, free action here and
>energy up yonder
>Who verily knows and who can here declare it, whence it was born and
>whence comes this creation?
>TheGods are later than this world's production. Who knows then
>whence it first came into being?
>He, the first origin of this creation, whether he formed it all or
>did not form it,
>Whose eye controls this world in highest heaven, he verily knows it,
>or perhaps he knows not.
>(Rig Veda 10-129)
>
>This has been a most mystifying and thought-provoking sukta, known
>as the Nasadiya Sukta in the Rig Veda (to myself, and many others so it seems).
>
>The translation I picked was by Ralph Griffith
>(http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Rig_Veda/Mandala_10/Hymn_129).
>
>I just finished reading a book titled the "Magus of Java" by Kosta
>Danaos (a Greek martial artist) and somehow after reading it the
>Nasadiya flashed in my mind.
>
>The rest of this article is here --
>
>http://medhajournal.com/content/view/345/76/
>
>I'm trying to follow a pattern here -- for those who cannot see it.
>Let's see if it elicits some response.
>
>Regards,
>
>Dwai
>
Greetings Dwai,
I think your comment to Partha is an important aspect of pattern making.
"Indeed, what the Taoist believes is that whatever
is, is the Tao, so it cannot possibly be undesirable.
Even the most seemingly ghastly thing is that way.
Good and Bad are simply values we assign to things..."
Whatever is Quality cannot possibly be undesirable. Quality equals
Morality. Assigning good and bad are pattern making.
Marsha
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars...
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