What’s in it for me?
Seemingly to be oneself should be easy. It isn’t.
In a word life is: Change.
Life is a fire, fueled by personal experience. To focus on a static life shifts this combustion to burn against one’s very nature. A Taoist instead moves with a lifestyle that allows change, permitting one’s life to be calm, cool and with peace. A Taoist embraces change, discovering a meaning of life defined by the complete flow of life’s actions. Each day is a wonder; each day consists of ever new possibilities to experience.
How can we change the world?
If a Taoist were to teach a single concept its:
Be yourself
Culture is the representation of every social interaction. In other words: Society is a reflection of our actions. To be yourself includes the practice of advocating your nature in society. Taoism takes this concept further to state that the best political system is one that allows people to be themselves without hindrance.
Speak and act to your nature. Action dictates a society.
An interesting harmonic forms as society echoes back to force change on its members. Being a reflection of the people itself, society also exerts a pressure for its members to conform to its representation of the larger membership. This reverse reaction often causes people to act outside their nature. In a culture of mass communication, society exerts an unusually large influence to change people. Modern culture has sculpted a large portion of the population to the point where many individuals cannot separate the difference between their life and a lifestyle imposed upon them through law and societal pressure.
The feeling of being lost is often due to a person not really living their life. This is the influence of acting outside one's nature, by living the American Dream over one’s own personal dream.
A Personal Tao is about personal strength. It’s a way to stand up against any form of dictatorship. Voting by one’s actions to how the world should be. If you are curious about what’s in it for you:
It’s the freedom to be yourself.
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Peace
3 comments:
Excellent piece. Thanks.
Been getting a few comments on my blog lately questioning my "phraseology".
So I appreciate the reminder to be myself. I tend to go in phases, hiding from the world for a while and then confronting it again as I have the strength and ability, but I need my time to recharge and refresh myself.
Too few of us seem to take the time to be ourselves, and to simply be. We all need more of that.
I appreciate what you have written. I lived this way for some time. Now that I am happily married with four beautiful children, though, I find it difficult to stay true to myself. I want the best for my family, I put them first, and therefore I do things and persevere through things I would not do if I weren't trying to support and uplift them.
What can I do to try finding balance in this situation?
HI Buddy
Balance remember balance, If you teach people that all you do is work for them, that is all they will expect.
People want to help each other, to be a family is to share. Let them help you support your heart also... otherwise over time you will break yourself and create crisis.
It's never a single person's job to support and uplift others, to do so just pushes you into the ground, into the grave or into breaking relationships.
Be yourself also. You just have to follow your smile, your heart. learn to accept the hard times that comes with the good times. No one person can smooth it all out. Well you can, but it always comes at the price of being yourself... which is not acceptable from Taoist thought.
I do offer spiritual counseling also. Sometimes having a outside guide to help hold heart space is what it takes to move on.
Since to have balance is to know truly what it is you want to hold as your heart space. Sadly: too often people think their personal heart space and holding together family are opposed to each other... it's that type of thinking that actually breaks relationships apart.
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