Anything is right if it is a correct expression of spontaneity. It is not the clothes that are unnatural or bad, but excessive materialism which is unnatural. People may ask, "If man is to be natural, why should he even bother to wear clothes?" Actually, clothes are a natural extension of our skin. How? He started to build an artificial conceptual world. Man's real disaster came about when he lost his naturalness. There is no one creator of the universe, there was no particular design or laws which existed beforehand, there was only the primal energy. Things created can only be changed or re-formed. Tao is the final source, the unformed origin of all things. If he is formed, then he is no different than we are he is only one of the offspring. In other words, unless people clearly recognize the source of their lives, they will blindly devitalize themselves by becoming "self-robbers." One can ask, "Is God the source?" If so, then God must have some shape. Although we came through others, they were only beings, not the source of life. If we say we are the offspring of a certain person or family, we cut ourselves off from the great root which is Tao.
We presume to title ourselves as a man or woman of Tao, or a friend of Tao. A person of Tao treasures only Tao and focuses only on Tao. They fasten to their ignorance and the limitations of their own self-indulgence. Be a person who does not become a "self-robber." Tao cannot be taught to ordinary people because they keep thieves in their minds. Be a man or woman of potency, not a person who undermines their life by destructive thinking, attitudes, and behavior. By harmonizing with the Tao you will be aligned with the universal potency. He or she embraces the wholeness of Tao, not an image of God, not one single doctrine of any spiritual path, not life, not death, not anything that occupies the mind. A person of Tao is a person of wholeness. Do not live for such things and you will stop segmenting yourselves. Do not let your life be cut into pieces by worldly attractions. Life is whole it is only by attaching yourself to the pieces that you become narrow, shallow, and partial. There will always be some things in your life you do or do not like, but they are only a small aspect of your life. So do not lose yourself in the details of life. However, they never regret anything and they also never really become attached to anything either. It is true that the achieved ones know that nothing is beyond Tao, including the trivialities of daily life. To use your good mind to respond to trouble is a waste. To be formed, limited, manifested, and definable is to be something to be not limited, defined or formed is Tao. Tao is the root of everything, but everything is not Tao. That which does not change into something else can only be the absolute Tao. In the sphere of life, individuals may die and transform into other things, but Tao does not change, because it is the change. To embrace Tao is to become Tao, and nothing can be beyond you, nothing can occupy you. Anyone who embraces Tao also embraces the potency of the Universe. This means that all things have Tao as their deep root. It includes all Gods, all deities, all divine beings, all spirits, and all souls. What is the method to achieve lasting peace and harmony in life? You must work persistently to reach the spiritual level, even if you have no experience of its existence. Even in meditation, if you review all your activities and troubles you will just keep making them recur. Will they ever find happiness this way? No, for there is no end to troubles in the human sphere.
Do ordinary people's thoughts respond to Tao? No, because ordinary people only think about the trivialities of daily life, and then wonder why they are troubled and unhappy. Taoist self-cultivation is a mental discipline in which every single thought must respond only to Tao, the oneness of the universe. I would like to share some very useful advice for your personal cultivation.
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