A Dove In The Hand

[Henry Secularpeturbations]

--- s~Z <keithsz at concentric.net> wrote:
> >>>If your son, distrustful of language,  has hope
> that Bush will at
> least listen to Lao Tzu, how can we despair? <<<
> 
> My son has no hope that Bush will do anything other
> than launch a massive
> military assault on Iraq.


> 
> His teacher says his writing skills are
> significantly improving.
> 


The teacher said, that the innate knowledge of man is
the same as that of plants and trees, tiles and
stones. Without the innate knowledge inherent in man,
there cannot be plants and trees, tiles and stones.
This is not true of them only. Even heaven and earth
cannot exist without the innate knowledge that is
inherent in man. For at bottom, heaven, Earth, the
myriad things and man form one body. The point at
which this unity manifests its most refined and
excellent form is clear intelligence of the human
mind. Wind, rain, dew, thunder, sun and moon, stars,
animals and palnts, mountains and rivers, earth and
stones are essentially one body with man. The virtue
of sages earlier or later was not different, and
therefore good government in earlier ages and today is
not differrent. The Heaven of earlier ages was the
same as the Heaven of later ages. The people of
earlier ages were the same as those of later ages. All
were endowed with original material forces, which are
pure and harmonious and are not different in earlier
or late ages....In ancient times there were
unrightious people, and today there are people of
established integrity. Good and evil intermingle. What
age is devoid of them? 

Wang Ch'ung

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