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Originally Posted by Profpat .".....Those who wish to attain oneness must practice undiscriminating virtue. They must dissolve all ideas of duality: good and bad, beautiful and ugly, high and low. They will be obliged to abandon any mental bias born of cultural or religious belief. Indeed, they should hold their minds free of any thought which interferes with their understanding of the universe as a harmonious oneness. The beginning of these practices is the beginning of liberation. " Hua Hu Ching ( Seven ) ( http://www.cheraglibrary.org/taoist/hua-hu-ching.htm ) Best, Pat

Their is no such thing as duality in Darfur, in genocide, in suffering; it is never right, good, beautiful, or high; suffering is only wrong, bad, ugly, and low. Ridding ourselves of such terribleness will not be achieved by denying it, but rather addressing it, addressing suffering by helping those so afflicted, stopping those who cause it, and then only denying that such suffering should ever happen again. Liberation or freedom is not a mindless state of denial as some religions practice, but rather is a state of true equality, where and when only true freedom will ever reign. Our only chance for such a state of liberation is in the practice of "undiscriminating virtue," and that is the equitable practice of goodness, of equality, of not just all people, but equally all things.

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