I think this is a good sentence to begin this post with. I had heard a similar phrase before about a biologist who really made me think about everything in a new perspective. He said that he loved what he did and the more he found out about what he was doing and learned about it, the more he wanted the best for it. For example, he told us about the fish. He loved his fish and over the years he had discovered great things about them. He had also discovered the fish's threats and things that had endangered them. Therefore, he began to educate almost everyone he met about the importance of these fishes and things that are putting them at a risk of extinction. To me, this is the definition of the sentence above. Once you love something, it can be a child or an animal, or a house, you will only want to protect it and give it the best opportunities you can. This also got me thinking, the first step towards decreasing global warming or slowing it down is creating bonds with our world. These bonds will motivate us to protect it and eventually, once we start loving what we have, global warming will stop being an issue.
While I was reading the Tao many things popped into my head. First of all, I thought that the Tao's is description in reading 14, everything makes more sense.
"Stand before it and there is no beginning.
Follow it and there is no end.
Stay with the ancient Tao,
Move with the present.
Knowing the ancient beginning is the essence of Tao." (Tao 14)
Now that I understand it better I sort of have an idea of what the Tao is about. Basically, all its saying is that you should not try to speed things up or slow them down. According to the Tao, "moving with the present" and allowing the natural pace of things to be what they are will let you see what Tao's essence really is. We still don't know what the Tao's essence consists of yet, but at least we know that the ancient beginnings have something to with it.
reading 15------>tells about ancient masters
Something else that came into my mind as I was reading was heaven an immortality. According to the Bible, once you die, if you were good, you go to heaven if not, its hell. However, the Tao just says that if you are "at one" with the Tao then you are "eternal." What I get out of this is that, your purpose in life is to be "at one" with the Tao. In contrast, the Bible says your purpose in life is to do good things to get to heaven. I think that being "at one" with the Tao is like finding Virtue, similar to Confucius. I also saw in reading twenty three that heaven and earth are what control things. This was similar to the Bible as well. Then, it said, "High winds do not last all morning. Heavy rain does not last all day. Why is this? Heaven and earth! If heaven and earth cannot make things eternal, How is it possible for man?" (Tao 23) This made me think about two things: one, the Tao is not encouraging people to go against nature and try to control it, unlike the Bible, in which God gives the world to humans so that they control it, and second, the Tao is encouraging people to accept things once they're over. These are two very important thing because they help define the Tao. This also made me realize that either the Tao is contradicting itself, or maybe its just saying that Virtue and Tao are eternal but humans are not and so, trying to be eternal is against the Way.
Everything is related to love somehow. Accepting things is loving them in a different way and being at peace with things is not only loving those things but loving yourself like that. Maybe that's what I've gotten out of the Tao so far. I really like Tao and everything that it says because it is so wise and so true.
This is a really cool brand of girl stuff I found. I really liked what it said about "give love, get peace" and Love, Planet, Peace...
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