I would like to read it. Even if all goes well this year politically (and I do love the return of joy), each life has its own trajectory, and the Dao is always useful. (Interesting sidebar: the earliest people we now call “Christians” referred to themselves as “followers of the way.”)
I quite appreciate this comment because I’m taoist & christian. As a chinese adoptee, christianity is my upbringing and taoism is my heritage and also just aligns with me well. But some christians tell me that I shouldn’t turn away from the christian God, while I feel that I haven’t turned away from God…and then it feels like they don’t accept me as I am or don’t think I’m a good person. But I think I can be taoist and christian without it being contradictory and that I can have them co-exist. ☺️💟☯️✝️
Hate to be contrarian, but Laozi's advice seems to be of the same genre as tht of therapists who urge one to find personal happiness by accepting the world as it is, or even that of twelve-step programs' serenity prayer, which involves accepting what one cannot change. Just wondering where this leaves those of us who believe in collective, not individual, action to change the things that (others say) cannot be changed; el pueblo unido jamas sera vencido.. And, like most philosophy, it's written from a place of immense privilege. But thank you for expanding my horizons.
I would like to read it. Even if all goes well this year politically (and I do love the return of joy), each life has its own trajectory, and the Dao is always useful. (Interesting sidebar: the earliest people we now call “Christians” referred to themselves as “followers of the way.”)
I quite appreciate this comment because I’m taoist & christian. As a chinese adoptee, christianity is my upbringing and taoism is my heritage and also just aligns with me well. But some christians tell me that I shouldn’t turn away from the christian God, while I feel that I haven’t turned away from God…and then it feels like they don’t accept me as I am or don’t think I’m a good person. But I think I can be taoist and christian without it being contradictory and that I can have them co-exist. ☺️💟☯️✝️
i think that's entirely possible; much in the way many Chinese could simultaneously consider themselves Daoist and Confucian and even Buddhist.
As always, thank you for reminding us of the power of philosophy to put things in perspective.
Hate to be contrarian, but Laozi's advice seems to be of the same genre as tht of therapists who urge one to find personal happiness by accepting the world as it is, or even that of twelve-step programs' serenity prayer, which involves accepting what one cannot change. Just wondering where this leaves those of us who believe in collective, not individual, action to change the things that (others say) cannot be changed; el pueblo unido jamas sera vencido.. And, like most philosophy, it's written from a place of immense privilege. But thank you for expanding my horizons.