Please pray for my cousin David who is returning to and re-centering himself in the Way of the Tao Te Ching. Being a mental health practitioner, I often ask, Why do we keep doing that which doesn’t seem to reap the benefits we are seeking in the first place?
From wikipedia.org: The book does not specifically define what the Tao is, as a matter of principle because fundamentally, Tao is indefinable, unlimited, and unnamable. There was something undefined and complete, existing before Heaven and Earth. How still it was, how formless, standing alone and undergoing no change, reaching everywhere with no danger of being exhausted. It may be regarded as the mother of all things. Truthfully it has no name, but I call it Tao (TTC, chapter 25).
I don’t believe David will find that which he is searching for because
John 14:6 (New International Version) says:
Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me."
And this narrative comes form Preacherwin’s Weblog because I couldn’t say it any better!
"Jesus begins and ends this passage by focusing on himself. Friends, salvation can be found in no other person or path. It cannot be found in philosophy, in science, in achievements, in wealth, in family, in humanism, in Buddha, in Mohammed, or in anyone or anything else. Our world presents many options and paths—some of which even sound convincing—but the only way to the Father is through Jesus. The only hope of a resurrection is found in the one who was resurrected. The only hope of eternal life is in the eternal one who is the life. And the only truth in this world is found in the person of Christ, who has revealed to us the mysteries of God’s redemptive plan."
Jesus Christ has eternal significance. Can you say that about whatever philosophy you follow?
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