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The 'influence' thing...From: Nnonnth
Subject: General
Date/Time 2007-10-21 19:30:58
Remote IP: 195.93.21.72
Message... to me is not as important as the single simple acknowledgement: AS FAR AS MASTERY IS CONCERNED BOTH SCHOOLS ARE ONE. I am sure you are right there was that Buddhist influence, but I feel that since (as you say) it's hard to say who influenced whom, even the most minute dissection of nei-yeh is unlikely to elucidate who is 'true' or 'right' or 'real traditional taoism' etc.
In a time when unity is called for I really prefer to look at what unites practices rather than at what divides them... who is the 'pure truth' better than the rest? I can't say I care, everyone has something this is my only real point. This argument has been dividing this board ever since I first logged on. Why I wonder?
Neither Bagua nor indeed Buddha himself would really argue with:
"It is necessary that you develop a base within yourself - a base that is not affected by your changing surface emotions or your changing mental states. This base must become a point of contact for your real personality, the essence of the divine which is within you and within everyone else. From this base you can reach out to know your emotions or to quiet your mind. Once established it gradually becomes a place of stability, allowing you to develop an internal awareness that cannot be disturbed by influences from any external source."
[Mickaharic, "A Century of Spells"]
... but it was said by a western witch. Even Buddha says, don't believe something because it's written down, because everyone says it, etc.
I was a little disingenuous in quoting myself above - originally it was not Bagua I wrote to but a trimuvirate then consisting of Max, Bagua, and Fajin. I wonder what Max would make now of the anti-alchemical arguments he so passionately espoused a mere year ago?
I think that if one is happy in one's own practice, then as long as someone else's aren't in some egregious way completely wrong and unacceptable (sacrificing virgins or something! ^_^) it seems easier just to say, well at least brother we are both going our way and finding what we need, even if we are finding it differently... it just seems more... sensible!
j
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