[John] Now I'm gonna have to carve out one piece of this dialogue, and expand on it a bit..
[Krimel] When you carve the block it is no longer uncarved. Whatever potential you hack out of the block destroys other potentials it may contain. Taoist art is quite interesting and I don't remember enough to go on about it other than emperors would send people out into the world looking for Tao in boulders and stones of swirled jade and granite. What made these "art" was the balance and harmony of the swirled mixtures of color they revealed. [John] Does naming the Tao do any good? Very good question, unkle Bo. I will have to think about that for I don't know. [Krimel] Naming it Tao works for me as I tried explaining to the granite headed one. But I read the King James Bible for the same reason. I know modern translation as more accurate but I want ancient writings to sound foreign and alien precisely because that's what they are. I reject the modern sound because it sounds modern. I must have read 10 or 15 different translations of the Tao te Ching and they are all very different in part because of the ambiguity of ancient Chinese. I love that. I think I know it in a better way because there are so many ways to know it. Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org/md/archives.html
