Wednesday, December 1, 2010

Tao Te Ching Chapter 57-6 More useful tools


Today's Tao

The more useful tools the people have, the more disordered the state gets. (Ch.57)


One can read this piece of wisdom of Lao Tzu as the encouragement of disarmament or the dissuasion from hiring intelligent and brilliant consultants for the nation's top positions.

We all know the stories.

Arms races and financial crises are metaphors and prayers.

Let's remember that the words "people" and "state" signify your hologram.

"Useful tools" like intelligence simply provoke disorder in the hologram.

If you have power or intelligence, can you stay away from using them to act on the rest of the world (=your hologram)?


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-Tao by Matsumoto / Tao Te Ching / Chapter 57


Tao answers your question!



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