Bindi Posted 19 hours ago (edited) 2 hours ago, doc benway said: The one telling the parable. It seems to me Nondualists want to dissolve their salt and have it too. Edited 19 hours ago by Bindi 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Lairg Posted 17 hours ago 7 hours ago, Bindi said: The outcome as I see it isn’t the erasure of individuality, but the embodiment of the Dao through a fully integrated human being. Agreed - but let's not exclude other soul-bearing species Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
old3bob Posted 16 hours ago (edited) 8 hours ago, Bindi said: I wouldn’t characterise alignment with the Dao as nonduality, as far as I can understand it alignment with the Dao is about making the spirit and the body one, divinising the human to reflect the Dao. The mundane ego “I” may be dissolved, but the ‘True yang’ or Yang Shen (or higher consciousness) replaces it. The outcome as I see it isn’t the erasure of individuality, but the embodiment of the Dao through a fully integrated human being. ok, although lets say there are many golden beings (or fully integrated and evolved) human beings who all embody the same Great Tao, we could then also say that that Tao is the one of them in the many of them...difference is they know it without being veiled or conditioned as the "ten thousand" are in time and space. (i'm taking some liberates with this analogy which I don't know if Taoists would agree with it or not?) Edited 15 hours ago by old3bob 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
