stages 365 Tao

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Unless you are pious,
You cannot gain a foothold in Tao.
Unless you go beyond rules,
You haven't gained the middle.
Unless you can be creative,
You aren't traversing Tao.
Unless the road always stretches out before you,
You are not walking the true Tao.


When people start on a spiritual path, they are anxious to learn all
the rules. This is understandable, even necessary. Often we need
stern measures to set ourselves right.

But dogmatism is not spirituality. Sometimes, it is necessary to
break rules. The task is to know how to go against doctrine in a way
that actually fulfills the spirit of that doctrine. It is only at
this point that one matures as a follower of Tao.

The next stage is complete creativity. You have so internalized
doctrine that you need not think of it, yet everything you do will
be spontaneously correct. There are many stages after that, stages
not documented but there for you to explore on your own.

Those who follow Tao recognize that all people go through stages of
development. Many people leave their spiritual communities when they
outgrow them. The path of Tao has been conceived so that one never
outgrows it. One can outgrow a particular stage, but when that
happens, there is another one to be entered. In this way, following
Tao is always vital.




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365 Tao
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Deng Ming-Dao (author)
ISBN 0-06-250223-9

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