Taoblog

Traditional Taoism stood on keeping techniques and information secret from outsiders. It should be shared. We should remember the Uncarved Block and keep our minds as open as we can! Let’s see how it turns out:

Everyone is appointed by tao
But we have forgotten completely our mission
We have forgotten even why we are here
We have forgotten the message
That has to be delivered.
We have forgotten who has sent us and we have
Forgotten to whom the message has to be delivered
We have forgotten everything!
We are living in a deep forgetfulness
And we call it life.
And people who are so utterly forgetful,
Of everything
Think themselves intelligent people.
If you ask the awakened ones they will call
This is sheer foolishness.
We have to wake up out of this foolishness,
We are here to fulfil a certain purpose.
Everyone is here to sing a song
To dance a dance, to release a certain perfume
But that is possible only
If you become very very conscious,
That is possible only
If you become so much alert that
You can see yourself directly, not via others.
Right now
Whatsoever you know about yourself is via others:
Somebody says you are very nice
And you believe it. Of course,
Everybody wants to believe that one is nice.
And somebody says you are very intelligent
And you believe it.
There are troublesome people also
Who say you are not intelligent,
You are stupid, you are a fool;
Nobody believes them but
They create a disturbance.
That's why we get angry:
Everything was running so smoothly,
Your father, your mother, your uncle, everybody
Was saying you are so nice, so beautiful,
Then somebody turns up and says that
You are just a fool -- how he annoys you.
And he may be right!
There is far more possibility that he is right
Because the world is full of fools.
But no mother can think that her son is a fool.
She will realize it only but later on when the son
Has fallen in the hands of another woman.
Then she will realize that he was a fool
Because then she will see that
'I have made so much effort and worked hard ...
It took twenty-five years for me
To make him intelligent enough
And here comes another woman
And within five minutes
She make a fool out of the same man!'
But till that happens, she will believe in you
That you are a great hero,
That you are somebody special
Because through your speciality
She becomes unique: Her son is special.
Your father believes that you are great
Because through you he is great.