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AnonymousBuckaroo Bonzai was a Daoist.....he uttered the famous phrase ... "no matter where you go...there you are." or another pearl of wisdom...."home is where you hang your hat."
Time to look for a copy of the Tao Te Ching and brush up on some of the writings....Have a good weekend to the rest of the Daoists....everyone one else too
AnonymousThere was a big debate and discussion on one of LA's local radios not too long ago. The big question was "Where is home?". Ofcourse for many of citizens and residents of this country this is a big question. It kept my mind busy for a few days too. Every time someone called the radio to raise an opinion I thought he was right. All opinions sounded right yet none were comforting. This sentence " Home is where you hang your hat.", seems so simple, yet so convincing. It even has has a soothing affect to it. It sounds so psychologically effective. I liked it.
Words do not have to sound big and suffisticated to penetrate. Here is one from Avissena (Abou Ali Sina: "I am afraid of cows for they have horns and no brains.". It simply means be afraid of people who have power and do not think well.
AnonymousHippies did not exist back then. Are you saying this because of his long hair and beard?
In that case Einstein was a hippie, **** was a hippie,!!!!!! was a hippie and many more.
AnonymousI am not referring to Master Mo's facial hair for my belief that he was a hippy. I am referring to Master Mo as hippy because of his philosophy of "universal love" and "anti- war". The hippies of the 1960's embraced such ideals. I meant to point out the similarity between the ideals of the hippies of the 1960's and teaching of this ancient chinese philosopher. It struck me that such ideals were not isolated to the counter- culture but also that these ideals could be used to try to build a better society - not only in our lifetimes but throughout history. As Master Mo would say"I love you , brother" and "make universal love, not universal war". Peace!
AnonymousMaybe my research was flawed and others (Clay) please correct me, but Master Mo would seem to have more in common with Aristotle's Nichomachean Ethics or John Stuart Mill's Utilitarianism than say Transcendentalist-Henry David Thoreau or some 60's Haight-Ashbury resident.
I feel secure that no one in the class truly means that Mo-ist philosophy can be contained by a few stereotypical remarks attributed to the time of the 60's, but I did want to throw out an idea that seems lost in the shuffle. That idea includes a strain of practicality that has gone seemingly unmentioned previously.
clay dubeRobert's observations are appropriate. In the interest of time and clarity, it is necessary to boil somewhat more complicated doctrines down. That said, I dare say that among these four schools only Daoism approaches the complexity of Buddhism. And, of course, it was Daoism that sprang to the minds of the first Chinese who heard about Buddhism. They were convinced that Buddhism was a slightly corrupted form of a belief system that originated in China. Initially rendering Buddhist ideas into Chinese using Daoist terms only furthered this line of thinking. Which raises the important question of how we know what we know -- how do we come to grasp the unfamiliar but through approximations drawing upon the familiar?
Finally -- let's move the rest of this philosophical exchange to the Chinese philosophy thread....
AnonymousI can see the connection between Mo'ists (SP?) and the "free love " generation of the sixties. Long hair is a physical description, but doesn't fairly describe the values of the hippie movement. It was a movement, not just a fashion choice.
But, I want to share about something I heard on NPR a few days ago...2,000 year old noodles were discovered in China. They were well preserved due to the flipping over of a bowl of millet noodles during an earthquake. The bowl encased the noodles and over time the dust settled and the noodles lay undisturbed until archaeologists recently found them. So, the debate over who should be credited for creating noodles is now China.
Just thought it was interesting.
AnonymousI do believe that if Einstein had been around in the 1960's he probably would have been a hippie.
AnonymousI read about the noodles in the LA Times. Apparently they are 4000 years old and, therefore, claim the status of the oldest noodles ever discovered. However, the Italians refuse to believe it and continue to claim they are the inventors of noodles. I didn't know noodles was such a controveral issue!
Karen
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