How does Taoism help us understand what life is?
Part I of II
‘… the word is also used to mean reality as a whole, which consists of all the individual ways.’
The implication is that we have to be ‘true’ to ourselves, for this sense of truth is the only means we have of following what we sense is our path in life.
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Taoism is based upon the concept of the whole being the sum of all individual ways.
If life is an individual way and the whole is the sum of these ways, how could we ever presume to speak for the whole?
But some would say that the whole has spoken and told our fathers before us that such and such behavior is acceptable behavior.
That is all well and good, but what right have we to force others to conform to our beliefs and sense of direction?
A woman is a woman and just because a man likes being a man and senses being a man is right for him, he has no right to force a woman to undergo the surgery required to become a man.