Word: taoist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Into the Essence. Once there was a man (so goes an ancient Taoist legend) who was so expert at judging horses that he ignored such trivialities as color and sex, looking as he did into the very essence of the beasts. Such a man, gifted with the eye for the core of reality, was Seymour?at least in the estimation of his family. His oldest surviving brother, Buddy Glass, remarks: "I haven't been able to think of anybody whom I'd care to send out to look for horses in his stead...
...that we are not fully aware, unable fully to experience-neither relate nor function-because we are still in the past or already in the future, while we act in the present. Clinging or being ahead of oneself diminishes the full play of the organism's potential. The Taoist attitude of intellectual silence, practice of inner quiet, fuller awakening of our inner and outer senses, bring us new depth and presence in what we experience and what...