Edgar,
The book you mention is an exemplary text of Taoism.
Taoism is an Outer Path, from the point of view of Chan.
Edgar, "Outer Path" in Chan parlance means "OTHER-" Path, outside the
Buddhadharma.
And so it is.
--Joe
> Edgar Owen <edgarowen@...> wrote:
>
> Joe, and JM,
>
> No! The light that JM describes IS the central path, not the outer path.
>
> The 'Book of the Golden Flower' agrees and describes the light and speaking
> of the light says that "before there was nothingness in the center of being
> but now there is being in the center of nothingness"..
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