Comments on: I'm Up

By: joe

joe — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 08:41:12 +0000

I can say Taoism is one of my many beliefs…you almost got me, haha.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 02:19:53 +0000

You see…the build-up wasn’t quite there for me. I still find myself struggling with a few of these ideas. Would you consider yourself more of a Taoist, now that you know this?

By: joe

joe — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 09:38:59 +0000

I guess the build-up was there, and the incidents acted as catalysts.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 03:17:42 +0000

@Uncle Joe — From your single experience, it sounds like you learned that there are no absolute truths, which is an accepted concept in Taoism. I wish I personally could have so easily discovered and understood such an idea, but it doesn’t come as naturally. I’m not completely “empty” yet.

I can’t take credit for the quote, it’s actually from my book, The Tao, by Mark Forstater, though he was quoting someone else. Most likely Chuang Tzu, I’d say.

@Maeko — An interesting idea. Not so easy to accept when looking at it on a practical level, but definitely true.

By: Maeko

Maeko — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 06:58:15 +0000

There is no darkness, only the absence of light.

By: joe

joe — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 13:37:22 +0000

I remember there was this client who almost called my boss to have me remove from his project. And there was another client who told my boss that I was the only competent person in the team. From that point on, I never felt drastic ups and downs. Like you say, “Perfect happiness is to be without happiness; the highest praise is to be without praise”.