Here’s the thing, I have had to step away from all social media platforms entirely. In some part driven by my own issues with overdeveloped… Read More »Social Platforms Must Stop Spreading Soul-Dysentery
Chapters 18 and 19 are practically a matched set – a before and after, problem and solution, bookending the same issue. It’s that dratted ego-centric monkey mind versus true Self stuff again.
The opening line from chapter 18:
When the great Tao is forgotten,
goodness and piety appear.
Contrasted with first line of 19:
Throw away holiness and wisdom,
and people will be a hundred times happier.
Now, goodness, wisdom, and the like are good things right? Why would you be concerned to see them arise, why would you try and toss them out? Because they are mental constructs. If you’ve ever seen the movie Footloose, or caught a good Christian Right rant on the TV you know that ideas of piety and holiness can do more harm than good. Ideas that have the power to suppress a soul rather than enliven it.
What Lao Tzu is trying to say here, is when you are no longer thinking and acting from that innate knowledge of true Self, you suddenly need rules and constructs to mimic what would otherwise arise naturally.Read More »ToV 18 &19 – Throw Away Holiness and Wisdom
The first thought to enter people’s minds when you say “hacker” is chain smoking Russians trying to steal your credit card information, or maladjusted teenagers breaking into government systems. The word is shocking, disturbing, and a sexy seller in the media.
Fact of the matter is hackers are rule breakers sure, but in the sense of doing something, or using something for other than it’s intended use. If you’ve ever used a butter knife as a screwdriver, you’re a hacker. If you’ve ever taken something apart to see how it works (my brother cut open my Mrs. Beasley to see where the voice came from) you’re a hacker.
Hackers are our tinkerers, our innovators, our dreamers and imaginers.Read More »Day 79 – hug a hacker!