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Re: PLato and the whole neo-buddhist possee...From: Plato
Subject: General
Date/Time 2005-02-23 10:42:37
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Message"Actually, you've asked the wrong question. The mind is nothing other than the chi functioning. It appears to the novice that the shen guide the chi, which condenses into jing/substance. But when you get deeper into alchemy, you discover that the jing is actually the shen in another form."
Here is where you make the big mistake. You think the mind is just chi. Exactly what I have been talking about.
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"Your conclusion I consider dualistic and thus false - that the mind leads the body. This type of language promotes the mind-body split. The deeper truth, I feel, is that the body IS the spirit, and when it vibrates we call its subtle movements our mind (chi flow). There is never any split in reality, only in our thinking and talking about it."
Yes Michael, but while you live in duality you abide by duality. Imagine I said that it hurt to get whipped with a strap and you responded by saying that my conclusion was dualistic and thus false--since everything is ultimately chi anyway?
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Karma as a control mechanism for peasants? Religion is a control mechanism. Karma just is.
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