correlations

Looking Through the Looking Glass

Like a looking glass (mirror), correlations are a tool for seeing yourself — your own mind. (See Tools of Taoist Thought: Correlations.) As such, they should appeal to anyone determined to find underlying causes. Of course, you’ll eventually reach The gateway of the manifold secrets as chapter 1 says. Therefore, the correlation’s process may only […]

Correlation’s ‘Prime Directive’

A Centertao member made a good attempt at correlations despite some inconsistencies. For correlations, the ‘prime directive’ is to use antonyms, and align similar meaning words — ‘pseudo synonyms’ — down one column with their antonyms down the other column. (See Tools of Taoist Thought: Correlations.) Compare these two sets, Cuc’s and mine. Now, for […]

Grinding Out Correlations

After I’d finished grinding out correlations to my satisfaction, I stood back and judged the process by the results, not by the process itself. (See Tools of Taoist Thought: Correlations) In other words, I judged the book by its cover. In this delusion, I naively thought this process would rip away other people’s preconceptions just […]

Peeking in on Nature’s Hoodwink

We are born with a bio-illusion — a bio-hoodwink(1) — that goes like this: Through hunting, “I” can gather fillers to satiate (fill) the hole. Primal emotions of need (e.g., desire, lust, want, wish, crave, etc.) and fear (e.g., insecurity, anxiety, doubt, apprehension) drive this illusion forward. This illusion originates in the survival instinct to […]

It Is Spooky

A member recently said on the Forum, “Philosophers see a subtle difference between two anti-Realist philosophies: “Dialectical Monism” and “Non-Dualism”. Well, I don’t doubt it! I imagine it is hard for philosophies of whatever stripe to see things as simply as they may be. Of course, the difficulty lies in semantics (‘the study of meaning, […]

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