Lao-tze and the Way
Heaven's vengeance is slow but sure. This is one of famous teachings of Lao-tze.
It means that Heaven symbolized by the sky looks full of loopholes. But it never misses evil forever. It will take on an evil man someday without exception.
Lao-tze ("Ro-shi" in Japanese), one of the greatest philosophers of ancient China who lived in the sixth century BC, also studied and explained the Way, the true nature of the universe.
Lao-tze observed everything in this world and found that any entity grows from the initial environment and dies and decays to return to the initial environment. Everything moves, changes, and gets bigger and prosperous without interruption after its origination or birth.
But its direction is to the original condition from which it emerges. By returning to the basic and original sphere, every entity becomes complete. Accordingly, a man should abandon his desire, learning, and wisdom he has acquired after his birth, and he has to enter the infinite and nameless universe from which he was born spiritually.
The ultimate purpose of life of a man is to return to the original space and get into it as deep as possible to merge together with the space.
This theory looks like a theory of the creation of the physical universe in the modern physics.
Usually, Americans and most of Europeans enjoy only the early part of this process. They enjoy growing and getting bigger and prosperous. But they cannot enjoy returning to the infinite and nameless universe from which their souls and spirits were born.
But ancient Chinese philosophers could see the truth of existence and life of human beings, that is, to return to the world from which their life came. Japanese also felt this truth about the state of existence and life of living things. So Japanese view on death and life has been highly influenced by Lao-tze or coincided with Lao-tze's teaching. Japanese unique Buddhism reflects this inclination in the Japanese philosophy on death and life.
But what is the different between a man who follows Lao-tze's teachings and another who blindly tries to enjoy his life by only becoming bigger and prosperous?
The latter would not respect life of his own and others as he does not respect the deep truth of the universe about death and life. So, he just enjoys living and riches in his life by sacrificing others and even neglecting his own ultimate duty to obey the truth of the universe. He will finally lose a sense of justice and ethics. Enjoying rich material life will be the most important proposition for him. For this aim, he will not mind taking money and happiness from others. He will even shake hands with the Devil to borrow any power from him so as to make himself economically successful, since life and death and the truth beyond this world are not of his concern.
However, a man who follows Lao-tze's teachings or the Way knows that his material and physical life in this world has an ultimate goal of returning into the infinite and nameless universe from which he was born so as to be complete. From the beginning, as there was something imperfect in the original environment, he was destined to be born. In order to solve this imperfection, he was born in this world and he has to return to the original space in a better manner. Accordingly, he would respect life of not only himself but also others. He will not make himself rich by sacrificing others as everybody must solve his own imperfection by returning to the infinite and nameless universe and not by having rich life while making others poor.
And, this teaching is shared with Christianity and Buddhism. The core of teaching is the same between the Lao-tze's philosophy, Christianity and Buddhism.
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Luk 6:24 But woe unto you that are rich! for ye have received your consolation.
This theory looks like a theory of the creation of the physical universe in the modern physics.
Usually, Americans and most of Europeans enjoy only the early part of this process. They enjoy growing and getting bigger and prosperous. But they cannot enjoy returning to the infinite and nameless universe from which their souls and spirits were born.
But ancient Chinese philosophers could see the truth of existence and life of human beings, that is, to return to the world from which their life came. Japanese also felt this truth about the state of existence and life of living things. So Japanese view on death and life has been highly influenced by Lao-tze or coincided with Lao-tze's teaching. Japanese unique Buddhism reflects this inclination in the Japanese philosophy on death and life.
But what is the different between a man who follows Lao-tze's teachings and another who blindly tries to enjoy his life by only becoming bigger and prosperous?
The latter would not respect life of his own and others as he does not respect the deep truth of the universe about death and life. So, he just enjoys living and riches in his life by sacrificing others and even neglecting his own ultimate duty to obey the truth of the universe. He will finally lose a sense of justice and ethics. Enjoying rich material life will be the most important proposition for him. For this aim, he will not mind taking money and happiness from others. He will even shake hands with the Devil to borrow any power from him so as to make himself economically successful, since life and death and the truth beyond this world are not of his concern.
However, a man who follows Lao-tze's teachings or the Way knows that his material and physical life in this world has an ultimate goal of returning into the infinite and nameless universe from which he was born so as to be complete. From the beginning, as there was something imperfect in the original environment, he was destined to be born. In order to solve this imperfection, he was born in this world and he has to return to the original space in a better manner. Accordingly, he would respect life of not only himself but also others. He will not make himself rich by sacrificing others as everybody must solve his own imperfection by returning to the infinite and nameless universe and not by having rich life while making others poor.
And, this teaching is shared with Christianity and Buddhism. The core of teaching is the same between the Lao-tze's philosophy, Christianity and Buddhism.
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Luk 6:24 But woe unto you that are rich! for ye have received your consolation.