I really like that, Carla! One could substitute Tao for truth, or Quality. Given your love of the motorcycling buddhist book, I trust you will agree! Or maybe I'm a little off. Here's my thoughts: the great thing about Jesus is that He is truth, so truth cannot merely be understood as a philosophical concept, an abstract idea. Somehow truth is a person, truth has personhood, truth is real enough to touch and see and hear and know. So in my mind, which likes to connect things, the Tao, when fully understood, is a kind of Christophany, or appearing of Christ. The Tao points us towards a reality far beyond us, and yet intimately interwoven with us. Quality, when rightly understood, is also simply this: truth. Reality. And in Jesus we get the complete picture: He is Tao, Quality, true and perfect Person. He is what we are becoming. And so the circle is complete, as we discover that we participate in Tao, we are growing in Quality, and we are becoming Christ (or Christ-like if you prefer).
I really like that too! Thanks for fleshing it out that way. Hm, "fleshing"... :) Freudian slip!
It feels great to be growing in quality. :) Or growing in "discovering" quality, perhaps. Would it be true that quality doesn't really exist unless it's discovered? Maybe that's a "both and" question. Maybe it's really just a matter of our level of satisfaction in the experience of quality.
Yup, I like it. I feel another post brewing about justice... If only I could blog at work...
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I like this Carla. Makes sense to me right now.
I really like that, Carla! One could substitute Tao for truth, or Quality. Given your love of the motorcycling buddhist book, I trust you will agree! Or maybe I'm a little off. Here's my thoughts: the great thing about Jesus is that He is truth, so truth cannot merely be understood as a philosophical concept, an abstract idea. Somehow truth is a person, truth has personhood, truth is real enough to touch and see and hear and know. So in my mind, which likes to connect things, the Tao, when fully understood, is a kind of Christophany, or appearing of Christ. The Tao points us towards a reality far beyond us, and yet intimately interwoven with us. Quality, when rightly understood, is also simply this: truth. Reality. And in Jesus we get the complete picture: He is Tao, Quality, true and perfect Person. He is what we are becoming. And so the circle is complete, as we discover that we participate in Tao, we are growing in Quality, and we are becoming Christ (or Christ-like if you prefer).
I really like that too! Thanks for fleshing it out that way. Hm, "fleshing"... :) Freudian slip!
It feels great to be growing in quality. :) Or growing in "discovering" quality, perhaps. Would it be true that quality doesn't really exist unless it's discovered? Maybe that's a "both and" question. Maybe it's really just a matter of our level of satisfaction in the experience of quality.
Yup, I like it. I feel another post brewing about justice... If only I could blog at work...
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