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 […]
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Correlation’s ‘Prime Directive’
Centertao member Cuc made a good attempt at Correlations despite some inconsistencies. For this process to work, it is essential to (1) find the antonym for each word you are pondering, (2) align all the similar meaning words — ‘pseudo synonyms’ I call them — down one column with their antonyms down the opposite column. […]
Continue reading…Grinding Out Correlations
After I 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 […]
Continue reading…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) and fear (e.g., insecurity, anxiety, doubt, apprehension) drive this illusion forward. This illusion originates in the survival instinct to find […]
Continue reading…It Is Spooky
A CenterTao 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! It is difficult, maybe impossible, for philosophers to convey things as simply as they are. The difficulty lies in subtle semantic differences. Oddly, for some reason we quickly discount […]
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