12/10/2023 0 Comments Tao quotes on unityNegative, potentially harmful situations emit slow vibrations. This has an effect on your energy field, which in turn translates into a positive charge that makes something good happen.”īarefoot Doctor's Guide to the Tao: A Spiritual Handbook for the Urban Warrior When you pray, you are praying to the god or goddess within you. Praying is merely a device for realigning the mind, energy, and passion of your local self with the mind, energy and passion of your universal self. Pray to the mountain, pray to the ancestors, pray to the Earth, pray to the Tao (but it won’t listen!), pray to the Great Mother, pray to Jehovah, Allah, Buddha, Jesus, Lakshmi, Siva, pray to the Great Spirit, it makes no difference. Pray to whomever, whatever, and whenever you choose. Fact is whatever terrible thing you may have done, praying will always turn your energy around for the better. Don’t ever be ashamed to pray or feel prevented by thinking yourself unworthy in any way. “When you find yourself in one of those mystical/devotional frames of mind or in am emergency and you feel you want to pray, then pray. Meeting the Shadow: The Hidden Power of the Dark Side of Human Nature If we are to be whole and follow the way of nature, we must pursue the difficult process of embracing the opposites.” Back came the neighbor, this time with more commiserations, only to encounter for the third time the same response, "Who knows what is good or bad?" And once again the farmer's point was well taken, for the following day soldiers came by commandeering for the army and because of his injury, the son was not drafted.Īccording to the Taoists, yang and yin, light and shadow, useful and useless are all different aspects of the whole, and the minute we choose one side and block out the other, we upset nature's balance. He was met with the same observation: "Who knows what is good or bad?" True this time too the next day the farmer's son tried to mount one of the wild horses and fell off, breaking his leg. The neighbor came over again, this time to congratulate the farmer on his windfall. The next day the horse returned, bringing with it a drove of wild horses it had befriended in its wanderings. His neighbor commiserated only to be told, "Who knows what's good or bad?" It was true. The ease with which such opposites may change places is depicted in a Taoist story about a farmer whose horse ran away. If being useful is beneficial, the being useless is also beneficial. “The Taoists realized that no single concept or value could be considered absolute or superior.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |