i would like some christian oppinions on this?

Question

The Ocean of Tao
Cannot be called an ocean
For there is nothing else to give it name.
There is no sky above it,
No earth below it,
No shore that surrounds it.
And so it "is".
And yet, "it" is not.
For what is "it" if there is nothing else?
And so there is only "one".
And yet, there is not.
For "one" to be, there must be "two".
And there is not.
There is only entire.
And yet, there is not.
For to be entire Is to measure complete.
And can there be measure Of what has no beginning or end?
Void of name; Void of substance; Void of measure.
Such things define nothingness-
But only if such things "are".
And, since the "are" not, What is?
Everything and Nothing-
The Ocean of Tao
That can not be called an ocean,
or even Tao.

Answer 1

Allow me to respond with my favorite.

Thirty spokes on a cartwheel
Go towards the hub that is the centre
-but look, there is nothing at the centre
and that is precisely why it works!

If you mould a cup, you have to make a hollow:
it is the emptiness within it that makes it useful.

In a house or room, it is the empty spaces
- the doors, the windows that make it useable.

They all use what they are made of
to do what they do

but without their nothingness they would be nothing.

Answer 2

Replace Ocean of Tao with a name for God and you have every circular conversation I've ever had on here.

Answer 3

Leave the ocean where it is!...concentrate on whether or not you're in right standing with GOD to make it into Heaven when your time is up on this earth!....(John 14: 6) & (Acts 4: 12)......

Answer 4

The poem is interesting, in that it pretty much sums up the concept. I'm just wondering why you're interested in a Christian perspective of a Buddhist premise?

Answer 5

This is one persons attempt at understanding the existence of God. The facts are accurate.

The Christian defense to the one not existing because there is not a two is:

The trinity God is three and as three the one then can exist.

Answer 6

The answer to this question is that it nullifies itself by posing a question that supposedly cannot be known to begin with. If a question is posed then their most be someone or something to pose it. So, your poem is self defeating.

Lonnie Honeycutt
Christian

Answer 7

Ohhhhhh
Kayyyyyyy.......

Answer 8

Dumb poem