Healing Tao USA | Mark Cowie | Activity https://healingtaousa.com/members/mark-cowie/activity/ Activity feed for Mark Cowie. Wed, 22 Apr 2026 13:15:15 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 5a87c2caf495da68f6b9f988fa3245bf Mark Cowie replied to the topic The Merit Thread in the forum General https://healingtaousa.com/forums/topic/the-merit-thread/page/2/#post-9146 Thu, 08 Dec 2005 14:27:14 -0400 How is it different from the idea of “De” (virtue) in the daodejing?

Merit in fact isn’t differnt from the idea of “De”. Your born with a set amount of merit. you can waste it or cultivate more of it just like Lao tzu said.

Lao zi does not seem to stress doing “good deeds” to accumulate merit in the daodejing, but seems to talk only about…[Read more]

]]> 3d84102abd8834a7d47845f7b5c9ba3a Mark Cowie replied to the topic On Michael's opinion of Bodri and Nan in the forum General https://healingtaousa.com/forums/topic/on-michaels-opinion-of-bodri-and-nan/#post-9241 Thu, 08 Dec 2005 10:27:23 -0400 Wow thank you guys so much for this information. the previous disscutions on Nan and Bodri had me confused. i’ve thought that the giving away the flesh joyfully of the skeleton meditation was the same thing as the inner smile. its just that on the outside it appears your forming an attachment to your flesh by loving it using the inner smile and…[Read more]

]]> df4c928aff0995ac27dbbc3ed91d4b51 Mark Cowie replied to the topic The Merit Thread in the forum General https://healingtaousa.com/forums/topic/the-merit-thread/page/2/#post-9142 Thu, 08 Dec 2005 00:38:16 -0400 You guys are getting this all little garbled. Merit in its most easy to understand sense refers to an idea called utilitarianism. you dont have to read any eastern stuff to figure this out. utilitarianism is the idea that the just or most virtueous (meritous) action is that which does the greatest good for all. you dont need to beleave in anything…[Read more]

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