How does Taoism help us understand what life is?
Part II of II
... A Caucasian is white and although Asians outnumber whites by two to one in the world, gives them no right to force whites to subject themselves to the process of changing their physical appearance to conform to the physical appearance of an Asian.
If we accept some differences, why can’t we accept all differences?
Life is a journey intended to be taken unimpeded by others.
We may offer options, we may offer assistance, we may counsel, but we have no right to interfere with a journey; it is sacred.
But just as we have no right to interfere with a journey, we have an even greater responsibility to understand that right to journey unimpeded and, therefore, we have a responsibility to protect that right for all individuals.
To do this we may have to go to the extreme of isolating some individuals in order to prevent them from interfering with the journeys of others.
The right to journey life unimpeded takes precedence over the individual’s journey.
The principle takes precedence over the action.
Taoism teaches that the whole is the sum of its individual ways. Life lies in the individual.
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The simplicity of Taoism teaches us tolerance, not the Western complexity of law and order.
Taoism recognizes the whole as being the sum of the individual ways. Through this understanding,
Taoism provides the simplistic acknowledgment of the rights of the individual over the demands of conformity imposed by society.