Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/05/01

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Subject: Re: [Leica] tao and haiku
From: S Dimitrov <sld@earthlink.net>
Date: Wed, 01 May 2002 07:27:53 -0700
References: <7123DD63-5CD1-11D6-A865-0003936CAC22@directvinternet.com>

What your experiencing is one of the problems of cultural relativism,
and not an uncommon reaction. It might be of some comfort to you that
these materials are almost as difficult to wade through to the members
of the originating society as they are to us.
Slobodan Dimitrov


Matthew Powell wrote:
> 
> On Wednesday, May 1, 2002, at 12:48 AM, Rob Appleby wrote:
> > BTW - came across this excellent translation of the first half of the
> > Tao Te
> > Ching - "excellent" meaning straightforward and honest, I can't speak
> > for
> > the linguistic side, of course - some of you might be interested to
> > look it
> > up:
> >
> > http://www.beatrice.com/TAO.html
> >
> I bought a book last week, "The Tao of Photography" (Gross and Shapiro)
> that's about linking the Chuang-Tzu to photography. I can't make
> progress, though, being a fairly hardened agnostic and overly suspicious
> of spirituality/supernatural beliefs.
> 
> But there's some lovely photography.
> 
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