Gender

Male

Location

Greeley, CO

Birthday:

December 3

Location

1932 26th st

Favourite music

nin, aphex twin, soulwax, m83, pink floyd, gorillaz, etc.

Favourite books

dark tower series

Favourite movies

there will be blood, blues brother, blood in blood out, memento, the wrestler

Favourite tv shows

breaking bad, walking dead, weeds, dexter, game of thrones

Favourite quotes

Quotes on Tao and Taoism On the very idea that philosophical Taoists venerate the non-useful, this is pure revisionist poppycock. The Taoist sees the use in what most would consider as useless. The lesson of the empty vessel is one of great import. (From DrumR at www.interfaith.org/forum/i-ching-12421.html) *** A Clear mind comes from the wonderful fundamental essence given us by nature and is not a personal possession. Impartiality beyond any specific culture fosters clarity and deeper seeing. It is not hard to produce wisdom... what is hard is to have wisdom not interrupted. (From Clear Mind, Alan Wattswww.flowinghands.com/mbs_htm/mbs.art.clear.mind.htm) *** Thus, even though the term Tao is used of Christ in the Chinese translation of John's Gospel, we should not infer that Taoism and Christianity are really about the same thing. They are not. Christianity proclaims a personal Creator who is morally outraged by man's sinfulness and will one day judge the world in righteousness (Rom. 1:18–2:6). Taoism proclaims an impersonal creative principle which makes no moral distinction between right and wrong and which judges no one. (From Taoism and Christianity by Michael Greghorn, www.probe.org/content/view/892/0/) *** Certain Chinese philosophers writing in, perhaps, the -5th and -4th centuries, explained ideas and a way of life that have come to be known as Taoism - the way of man's cooperation with the course or trend of the natural world, whose principles we discover in the flow patterns of water, gas, an fire, which are subsequently memorialized or sculptured in those of stone and wood, and, later, in many forms of human art. What they had to say is of immense importance for our own times when in the +20th century, we are realizing that our efforts to rule nature by technical force and "straighten it out" may have the most disastrous results. (From Alan Watts: Tao: The Watercourse Way, Pantheon Books, 1975, xiv) *** Taoism ... is the Religion of the Tao, a term meaning Path or Way, but denoting in this peculiar case the way, course or movement of the Universe, her processes and methods. In other words, Taoism is the Religion of Heaven and Earth, of the Cosmos, of the World or Nature in the broadest sense of these words. Hence we may call it Naturism. (De Groot: Religious System of China, IV, p. 66.) *** Taoism is based on the idea that behind all material things and all the change in the world lies one fundamental, universal principle: the Way or Tao. This principle gives rise to all existence and governs everything, all change and all life. Behind the bewildering multiplicity and contradictions of the world lies a single unity, the Tao. The purpose of human life, then, is to live life according to the Tao... (from www.wsu.edu:8001/~dee/CHPHIL/TAOISM.HTM) *** Condensed into a single phrase, the injunction of Lao Tzu to mankind is, 'Follow Nature.' This is a good practical equivalent for the Chinese expression, 'Get hold of Tao', although 'Tao' does not exactly correspond to the word Nature, as ordinarily used by us to denote the sum of phenomena in this ever-changing universe. It seems to me, however, that the conception of Tao must have been reached, originally, through this channel. Lao Tzu, interpreting the plain facts of Nature before his eyes, concludes that behind her manifold workings there exists an ultimate Reality which in its essence is unfathomable and unknowable, yet manifests itself in laws of unfailing regularity. (From Lionel Giles: Book of Lieh-tzu, 1912). tao intiation adv Taoism, in its broadest sense, is the search for truth and reality. In a narrower sense, it is the original knowledge tradition of China... (From Awakening to the Tao by Liu I-ming, translated by Thomas Cleary).

To get to work/school I

Bike, Drive car