/lit/ - Literature

>>16752608
>heard the name before but no. I am unaware. why do you bring this up?
Because the biggest Daoist movement in China is being actively surpressed by the CCP. The CCP is Confuscianism squared.

>you are not western?
Yes but im not well educated.

>well, if we want to be those masters we want to actually hold the full of the dao and not "lose it" again. Therefore it should be that acting rational should be part of it, even if one recognizes that rationality is only limited to its field, and that where it starts failing is part of being rational; not being rational msut become also being rational in the sense that rationality is not everything. But denying acting rational or wanting to act rational because of that, is denying an integral aspect of being human, of the world.

A koan for you;

南泉、因趙州問、如何是道。

Jõshû asked Nansen, "What is the Way?"

泉云、平常心是道。

"Ordinary mind is the Way," Nansen replied.

州云、還可趣向否。

"Shall I try to seek after it?" Jõshû asked.

泉云、擬向即乖。

"If you try for it, you will become separated from it," responded Nansen.

州云、不擬爭知是道。

"How can I know the Way unless I try for it?" persisted Jõshû.

泉云、道不屬知、不屬不知。

Nansen said, "The Way is not a matter of knowing or not knowing.

知是妄覺、不知是無記。

Knowing is delusion; not knowing is confusion.

若眞達不擬之道、猶如太虚廓然洞豁。

When you have really reached the true Way beyond doubt, you will find it as vast and boundless as outer space.

豈可強是非也。

How can it be talked about on the level of right and wrong?"

州於言下頓悟。

With these words, Jõshû came to a sudden realization.
Mumon's Comment

無門曰、南泉被趙州發問、直得瓦解氷消、分疎不下。

Nansen dissolved and melted away before Jõshû's question, and could not offer a plausible explanation.

趙州縱饒悟去、更參三十年始得。

Even though Jõshû comes to a realization, he must delve into it for another thirty years before he can fully understand it.
Mumon's Verse 頌曰

春有百花秋有月 The spring flowers, the autumn moon;

夏有涼風冬有雪 Summer breezes, winter snow.

若無閑事挂心頭 If useless things do not clutter your mind,

更是人間好時節 You have the best days of your life.

>>16712433
>arguably the greatest cope ever concocted
Its the exact opposite, its truth, as opposed to your imagined escape. The totality will spread wherever you go. You are one of us forever and no amount of autistic fun time you have with your Gnostic and other dualist friends will ever change that.