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To: alt.philosophy.taoism,alt.magick.tyagi,alt.zen,alt.religion.buddhism,alt.religion.all-worlds,alt.magick From: ! Subject: Re: Ambitious Taoist? Oxymoron? Date: 17 Sep 1995 10:23:38 -0700 |>| [is] 'ambition' - such as motivation for career advancement, |>| ...fundamentally at odds with the Taoist 'sage' philosophy? yes it is. however, achievement is not at odds with it. you may succeed at all manner of objectives, but if you are geting them ambitiously, you may be missing the point. let me quote to you from the _Dialogue of P'ang Yu:n_ and the _Records of Pointing at the Moon_ via Chang-Chung Yuan and Raymond Smullyan: P'an Yu:n and his wife had a son and daughter, and that the whole family were devoted to Ch'an. One day P'ang Yu:n, sitting quietly in his temple, made this remark: "How difficult it is! How difficult it is! My studies are like drying the fibers of a thousand pounds of flax in the sun by hanging them in the trees!": But his wife responded: "My way is easy indeed! I find the teachings of the Patriarchs right on the tops of the flowering plants!" When their daughter overheard this exchange, she sang: "My study is neither difficult nor easy. When I am hungry I eat, When I am tired I rest." Quoted in _The Tao is Silent_, by Raymond M. Smullyan, Harper/Row, 1977; and I played with the punctuation a little. ;>
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