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OH yeah, and I also wanted to add that I'm enjoying revisiting the material in this thread with all the links to the translations you have found. Thanks, SecularFuture!

I've hesitated to post about favorite translations because all my various versions are still packed away in the storage shed since I painted several months ago. But looks like I'm not rushing out to the storage shed to dig around and find my various copies, so I can't tell you my 'favorites'. What I...

[quote=""Student of Sophia""]For what it's worth, I think it is a particularly beautiful expression of the perennial philosophy.[/quote]Thanks for the link, Student of Sophia. I hope to look into this as well.

SecularFuture, I'm going to check out the translation you linked and revisit my own thoughts on the Tao before attempting a decent reply (and ...erm... dealing with some holiday stuff...) In the meantime I can toss out my personal interpretation of how the Tao relates to each person's own way of liv...

[quote=""pescifish""] Mod note: Several posts were split to a locked thread, here , as they constitute an off-topic derail of this thread's topic. [/quote] Some additional posts have been moved to the thread of all the derail posts that have been split from this one. TO REITERATE...

Mod note: Several posts were split to a locked thread, here , as they constitute an off-topic derail of this thread's topic. Please note that for many of the users of FRDB forums, English is not a primary language. This may be especially true in this NARP forum. Any consideration and use of helpful...

Mod note: Since the OP did not provide any real direction for discussion related to Non-Abrahamic Religion & Philosophy, it was not surprising that this thread was essentially derailed away from any hope of NARP topics in the second post. Potoooooooo, I'd like to remind you of our request that ...

Mod note: and so this thread moves from NARP to GRD. It may be the discussion will focus on the religious/cultural conventions the show is challenging and portraying which puts it in GRD, I hope. Or the discussion may end up being more generic, so GRD mods may find the need to move it to MD or some...

How about some sort of "Experience-ism?" It's a tough call, wordy, but I spent some time over the years trying to make my own sense of what might be considered "common" to the experience of life. As aupmanyav says, I think our physical senses and abilities just aren't 'common' en...