From LOJBAN@CUVMB.BITNET Sat Mar 6 22:46:19 2010 Reply-To: Steve Hazel Sender: Lojban list Date: Sun Dec 10 05:17:25 1995 From: Steve Hazel Subject: CPE: la DAOdeiJIN X-To: lojban@cuvmb.columbia.edu To: John Cowan Status: OR X-From-Space-Date: Sun Dec 10 05:17:25 1995 X-From-Space-Address: LOJBAN%CUVMB.BITNET@UBVM.CC.BUFFALO.EDU Message-ID: Submitted for your approval - Any comments, corrections, or improvements are welcome >From the Tao Te Ching by Lau-Tze: "Jen fa Ti: Ti fa T'sien: T'sien fa Tao: Tao fa tzu-jan" In english: "Men are created by the earth, earth is created by the universe, and the universe is created by Nature's Process, and Nature's Process just happened." or "Man is under the law of the earth, the earth is under the law of the universe, the universe in under the law of the Tao, and the Tao is the Law itself." or "Man takes his law from the earth; the earth takes it's law from the Universe; the Universe takes it's law from the Tao. The law of the Tao is it's being what it is." lo'e remna ku se jitro lo'e terdi javni ku .i le terdi ku se jitro lo'e munje javni ku .i le munje ku se jitro lo'e la daos javni ku .i la daos se jitro la daos {la daos.} can optionally be replaced by {lo rarna pruce ku} "Things-which-are-human are-controlled-by earth-rules; The earth is-controlled-by universe-rules; The universe is-controlled-by [(that-called)Tao]-rules; (that-called)Tao is-controlled-by (that-called)Tao." ------ co'o mi'e stiv Steven Hazel hazel@turing.cs.stedwards.edu e'osai ko sarji la lojban