Rickie

Always about choice and perfect. Yes we have and yes we are. You mean the crew chooses based on their experience? Does their experience mean the know better than to challenge the flow? Have they chosen Tao?

I think you're missing my point? You, me everyone are the fish.

It's how you approach life. You can get caught up in the buzz or stand firm. Simple doesn't mean easy but it can be with practice.

Then maybe you would like the approach of the Hellenistic sceptics" I'll read about it but I'm feeling good where I am now Also I am neither objective or subjective. Actually I am both. I don't think I can be any other way. Labels and definitions are limiting BUT if I were to chose a label it would be mostly but not limited to intuitive.

I can't say for sure if the fish in water has free will but I believe I have control of my destiny, up to a point. If I look from the perspective of the universe my choices (actions) are inconsequential but hell I may never know if I'm right or wrong so I don't really care so long as I believe.....

No offence but I believe you're overthinking this a bit but hey I'm just a simple guy trying to live a simple life. :-)

The lion eats the antelope to sustain itself. The whole circle of life thing. The lion will chase off threats and if that doesn't work it kills. The lion doesn't kill just for fun and entertainment. You are in a sense protecting your space If you go on a rampage killing every ant you see then I'd worried. Having said that I try to avoid stepping on ants and other little critters, when I walk. :-)

disagreeing is Tao :-) I suppose a fish could choose not to live in water. A fish really doesn't have a choice.

You are Tao. You have no choice. Everything you do or don't do is Tao. Relax be happy. Live a good life.

Yes it is incorrect. Get over it. It's not about you. Live and let live.

You ask as if there is a choice. Whether you recognize it or not you are following Tao.

Too many words can make things complicated and difficult to understand. A few words can help one think and find their own understanding.

Poetry or not does it change it's value? Other than an interesting discussion, that may or may not have value does it matter?

I honestly don't know what you mean by yoga? My thought...yoga is something but not everything. Now if you attaching a Tao value (if that is possible) to it then I'd say the "word" yoga is everything just as the "word" Tao is everything. But without us attaching some kind of inexplicable value to the words then they are nothing. Of course where you are sitting and the direction your looking in you may see things differently.

I really have to say yes & no. To say either exclusively would be attempting to define the undefinable, beside saying yes & no "FEELS" right and when words don't work well enough I go by feel and intuition. :-)

Food is like a big family to me...that I visit too often. :-)

X is everything or nothing. I favor everything but when that doesn't work I default to nothing. Nothing then works for me until it doesn't. I try not to get too hung up on everything and nothing helps with that.

Nothing is something, don't knowing is knowing.and it's all everything. -oh so many things I don't need to know. :-)

There are things I know are going to happen. Some things I'm pretty sure will happen. Some things will be surprises. And there is a whole lot of stuff I don't nor will never know. I have influence over some and none over most. Does that mean my destiny is determined? I may never know but I'll live like I have control of my destiny and will deal with anything that comes at me the best I can. I couldn't live my life thinking I had no control of my destiny. I may be a fool but it works for me. :-)

Likes and dislikes will last forever if you hang on to them that long.

Where does the hyena come into this? Their scavengers. I agree, food can mess up your energy system, especially if you eat too much ( my opinion the number one error) or too much of one thing. (the number two error), that stimulates your taste buds.

I think you can eat pretty much what you want just eat moderately.

Well, my first thought is if you define/name yoga as everything you've just limited everything and I don't think you can do that. Well you can but what good is that and does it make a difference? Everything is more than yoga and yoga is in everything. My second thought is, it doesn't matter. Everything is everything. Everything else is everything. Everything is more than we can know or imagine. So, it's nice to think about but does it mean anything to everything? We are so small in everything.

"ambivalent relationship with self-identification and describing the world-at-large" and I am not understanding you, What do you mean? I try not to be "too" ridged in my thinking. I try not to have absolutes that may limit my understanding stuff. Stuff is a deliberate vague and broad word. Everything we have and everything that exists is just stuff.

I don't want to take the label too seriously. I know lots just never enough.