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@ Comte de Sats Germain
2025-02-25 20:50:32
Dao de Jing / Tao te Ching
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You're not experiencing the complete reality. That's not to say that things aren't real - this is where people misunderstand and then either condemn nonsense (straw man) or promote nonsense (woo woo). The reality you experience is a fraction of what's actually there and what's actually going on. How far from completeness is your sliver of the totality? Unknown. Unknowable. Functionally, any step closer to reality still leaves an infinite gap between you and completeness.
And yet, stuff works. There is a predictability to the world we inhabit. Is that predictability immutable? Probably not. Does knowing repeatable actions and characteristics yield any insight into **_why_** they repeat? Nope.
If you were to truly know reality, you would have to **_be_** reality. You would have to have perfect union with the thing. The is the root of the assertion of both Buddhism and Christianity - Buddhism posits that you already are the whole, and you can wake up to that reality ; Christianity posits that a single being in totality would go to the extreme of dying a human death to understand and to **_be_** humanity. Love is being, and it is experienced by a loss of self identity.
Taoism isn't saying all this - at least, I don't think it is. Taoism is more observational. It leans to the empirical and stops the rational at the humility required to observe. What we can definitely observe is that reality is deeper and more complex than our ability to observe it.
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