I Find A Piece Of Paper...This Is What It Says...PHILOSOPHY

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Apr 25, 2002
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The Smallest First STep May Lead To The Greatest Path
While The Largest May Lead To The Steep Edge Of A Cliff
Never Mistake Anything As Trivial
As Importantly. Never Mistake Anything As Supreme
When You Fail To Pay Heed To THe Signifigance Of Both
The Truly Supreme Will Pass By Unseen
This Supreme Thing I Speak Of Is Balance
Not A Balance of "one bad deed, one good deed"
This is A Cheap Way To Rid One's Self Of Guilt
Let Go Of Your Ego...
And You Will Truly Have Something To Be Proud Of...
But You Will Feel No Pride At All

that's all there was on the page...has anyone read this somewhere else? is it from a book? or did i just find some crazy dope writing?

fuck
help me out
 
Dec 27, 2002
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You aint the only one. That shit is tight, it's describing Tao, the Supreme Principle of the universe. It's describing the differnce between Dualism vs. Monism

There is materialism which is a dualistic outlook, which is why people make the mistake of saying "I have this" "I have that", when the reality is that everything is an inseparable ONE.

Then there is transcendentalism, which is the process of awakening our spiritual vision, so that we can see the universe in it's original singular position. When one can see in this way, he does not make the mistake of false proprietorship. He realizes that "I am soul" "I own nothing, not even my own body".

The Absolute is singular, but since we are each an individual "part" of this singular existence, we mistakenly feel "separate" from it, or existential. This is due to the false ego, and it is why that passage you found is telling us to let go of our egos.

The stage of perfection is called trance, or samadhi, when one's mind is completely restrained from material mental activities by practice of yoga. This is characterized by one's ability to see the self by the pure mind and to relish and rejoice in the self. In that joyous state, one is situated in boundless transcendental happiness and enjoys himself through transcendental senses. Established thus, one never departs from the truth, and upon gaining this he thinks there is no greater gain. Being situated in such a position, one is never shaken, even in the midst of greatest difficulty. This indeed is actual freedom from all miseries arising from material contact.
 
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so you like it?

i wrote that shit the other day...lol

saying i found it made it a cool story tho' lol

yeah i guess you got what the meaning was...too many words you used to describe it...

but yeah i am Taoist...don't knwo what samadhi dualism or monism is ...but you got it pretty well
 
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Fa sho, it's good to see cats puttin effort into seeing beyond the obvious materialistic things and get on some abstract thought provoking shit. Keep that shit up mayn.