…our midst. And the idea of the Messiah is born, which is an incredibly peculiarly western idea. I mean, Buddha, Lao tzu, Mencius, Confucius. These were guys. A messiah is a horse of a different feather. A messiah is not exactly a human being. A messiah…

…of ideas were very concentrated. You know there was a 40 year period in the 5th century BC when Lao Tzu, Mencius, Confucius, Parmenides, Ezekiel and several other luminaries all if they had air tickets could have had a dinner party together. Well that's…

…our midst and the idea of the messiah is born, which is an incredibly peculiarly western idea. I mean buddha, Lao Tzu, Mencius, Confucius, these were guys you know, a messiah is a horse of a different feather. A messiah is not exactly a human being. A…

…our midst and the idea of the messiah is born, which is an incredibly peculiarly western idea. I mean buddha, Lao Tzu, Mencius Confucius these were guys you know a messiah is a horse of a different feather. A messiah is not exactly a human being you…

…and look at the bottom of that trough, there was a moment when you could have had a dinner party when Lao Tzu, Confucius, Mencius, Pythagoras and Ezekiel could have all gotten drunk together had they been able to find each other right back there in the…

…ninth I have no idea what that means. Let's answer first umm 526 b c. Oh it's the Greek Renaissance, It's Plato, Pythagoras, Ezekiel Confucius, Lao Tzu. Hey I think it's time to knock off. You should quit when you're ahead you know, yes most of my left…

…be manipulated and cultivated. And I really see Taoism as something broader than the nature religion that arose in southern china pre Confucius and so forth. I see it as the kind of natural way of being in the world that tribally alive societies settle…

…ideas were very concentrated. You know, there was a 40 year period in the 5th century b c when Lao Tzu, Mencius, Confucius, Parmenides, Ezekiel and several other luminaries all if they had air tickets could have had a dinner party together. Well that's…

…land disturbance. There are processes which if allowed to run on indefinitely, would wreck the whole system and pitch it into chaos. Confucius said no tree grows to heaven, and what he meant by that is it's fruitless to project any process to infinity…

…disturbance. There are processes which if allowed to run on indefinitely would wreck the whole system and pitch it into chaos. But Confucius said: no tree grows to heaven, and what he meant by that is: it's fruitless to project any process to infinity…