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Anon studies Buddhism (sh.itjust.works)

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[–] ThirdConsul@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 days ago (3 children)

To be honest Tao Te Ching reads like an edgelord fanfic.

Yet mystery and manifestations arise from the same source.

This source is called darkness.

Darkness within darkness.

The gateway to all understanding

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

That actually makes perfect sense to me.

Curiosity and imagined reality both arise from lack of complete knowledge. These things are both illusions, which are also a lack of complete knowledge. But these are the path to greater knowledge.

The tao te ching is notorious for its wildly disparate translations and it's poetic ambiguity. As the saying goes, if you've read two translations of the tao te ching you've read two different books

[–] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago

Taoism: Just be.

Me: is

Taoism: Not like that

[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 2 days ago

Could be death metal lyrics