ranee wrote:Why, what's that a-rumbling in the distance? Could it be the militant taoist hordes emerging from their caves, descending from their mountain tops, to issue a 'toa-twa' on the insolent blasphemers! :roll:
I had the same image in my mind when I posted. I wondered if I could start of the first Taoist Jihad. But the answer is, of course, no. Obviously Sun Tzu stands out first and foremost for applying 5 element theory to military strategy. Guan Yu, Zhang Jiao and the characters of "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" all stand out. Toaism and war have always gone hand in fist. The basic theory that the one that is closest to "The Tao" is assured of victory, whereas the one that is furthest away, is assured of defeat.
There is a good quote from The Art of War that goes, depending on translation, something like this;
Sun Tzu wrote:The General who knows himself will sometimes win and sometimes lose.
The General who knows neither himself nor his enemy will always be defeated
The General who knows his enemy and himself will never be endangered in a hundred engagements.
If you had been been paying attention closely enough, you would have realised that admin is not a person but the administrative account for the forum used by moderators.
If you want to say something, just come out and say it, otherwise you are likely to end up looking at best purile and at worst with tamoguni egg on your face. Even in my utter ignorance, I would say using Tao (or even Gyan) to promote one's self or turn a dollar, exploiting the Taoism current caché to promote the BK Gyan or even being purile are all far from the Tao and will ultimate be self-defeating.
I was very fortunate to be inspired early on in this forum's days by an individual, to whom I will always be grateful, who opened my eyes to business corruption that had entered Gyan since I left it. Even in my utter impure and fallen state, I was shocked that things could have gone to rot so far. The one thing that disgusts me the most, a smear BKs often come up with, is this concept of personal ownership they push; I and my, me and mine, you and yours ...
Whatever happened to the ideas of trusteeship, cooperativism, and common ownership as we disappeared down the rabbit holes of contracts, commissions, licenses and trademarks, centers in private ownership? Are BK followers serfs to the landlords or stakeholders in a commonwealth? What we discovered here was that, legally, according to the formative articles, BK followers are not even members because they have none.