Do you go with the Tao?

Question

Do you find yourself rushing through life trying to make everything happen?
Have you ever said, "Stop the World, I want to get off?"
Have you trusted the Tao, and let your life be what it is and become what it will be?
Talk to me.

Remember: Be what you are for, not what you are against. See an answer you do not like? Can you resist the urge to give it a thumbs down?
Peace, Everyone!

In God We Trust- I am sorry that you feel this way about life. I hope that you will find more peace and beauty on your path.

Ibrahim-thanks for all the info. I am glad that you are on your true path. Peace to you as well. :)

Kapil! Yes! You are so right. I can feel your enthusiasm. Thanks for sharing it with me.

CosmicCoyote- Conditioning is a problem, I agree. However, recently, I just said, "that's it!" No more struggling and striving. It is the most freeing thing I have ever experienced. No worries either. :)

Answer 1

YES...YES...YES!!!
The moment it dawned upon me that Tao is Love, that Tao and Love are the two names of one thing; I knew I had found the real answer to my life, to my quest.....THE LOVE...TAO!
I had realised that all this rushing through life to make everything happen is in quest of something which is permanent and eternally blissful.
And only Love passed the test...and that's why it is Tao!!!
And then I said "Let the world run if it likes to, I have seen home and so I get off........."
Now all I have left to do is walking, whistling towards the home I have seen...
I have to be love....and I will automatically be Tao!

Answer 2

The Tao is very natural but I was conditioned beginning at an early age, yes it takes letting go of a lot of things one was taught to hold dear but it can be done.

Answer 3

"The great Tao flows everywhere, both to the left and to the right. The ten thousand things depend upon it; it holds nothing back. It fulfils its purpose silently and makes no claim. It nourishes the ten thousand things. And yet is not their lord. It has no aim; it is very small. The ten thousand things return to it, yet it is not their lord. It is very great. It does not show its greatness, And is therefore truly great".

You are one of that ten thousand.
And I am.

Answer 4

As salaamu 'alikym, my friend.

Tao is the classical Chinese philosophy of non-judgment and, thereby, observing what is as it is rather than applying a personal slant or perception (and a possible bias) onto the observed.
In this philosphy, nothing is seen as good or bad but, rather, all is viewed as simply being.
This perception also applys to human actions. One does not do a "good" thing or a "bad" thing. One simply does what one does as one does as such at any given moment. What might appear to be the beneficial (in regards to the individual, to his family, to his community, to his country or to the world at large) action of the present moment might, in the next or some subsequent present moment not be the beneficial action or course thereof.
From the perspective of Judaism, Christianity or Islam, where a moral code, as the same is believed to have been revealed by God (YHWH, Trinity Fahter/Son/Holy Spirit, or Allah, Subhanna wa Ta'ala), is taught and supposedly practiced by the adherants of the same said religious systems, such may well be understood as an "ammoral" outlook and thereby not particularly workable.
Viewed from the previously mentioned vantage point, however, one might be able to argue that allowing what will happen to happen without fighting against the same may represent accepting the Will of God as part of the understanding that God and God alone has created all that is, sustains all that is and all that is, including humankind, must submit to the Will of God, His designs and that which He allows and sustains.
As with all personal outlooks and view points (or opinions), it is preciesly our outlooks, view points and personal understandings that leads each to act and re-act as each does. How I have personally be led in my personal faith journey and philosophical outlook to "understand" my relationship to reality in all of the implications of the same may not be the manner in which another has been so led.
Insha'Allah, it would always appear to be a wiser course of action to allow for God to judge and to allow others (as long as their personally chosen path and actions do no harm to others nor impinge uopn the freedoms of others within the limits of a social understanding) to follow their own chosen path.
IN regards to science, one must remember then axiom of physics which states the we alter what is simply by our observation of the same. If such is true (at all times in all place and in regards to all that is observable) then one can never really observe what is as it is. (One example of this is the photon. Observed in one manner it is a wave. Observed in antoher manner it is a particle. Our observation and the manner in which the same is conducted, especially inregards to that which one may be seeking, influences what is observed. This might lead to the query of is a photon a particle that behaves like a wave or a wave that has the ability to demonstrate the behavior of a particle? Such, however, is another discussion entirely.)

IN my own faith journey, I have practiced Roman Catholicism, Taoism, Buddhism, studied many of the worlds older religions or mythological systems, looked into "New Age" practices, studies science and have now arrived, through the Mercy of Allah, Subhanna wa Ta'ala, into Islam.
IN this journey, I have learned that tolerance and understanding, as well as appreciation, is more likely to lead to peace and a feeling of community than the reverse.

Ma'a salaam.

Answer 5

"Stop the World, I want to get off?"
I feel like that all the time.
I wish to get off and barf.

I do not wish to let my life be what it is and become what it will be. I live in a whorehouse and want to escape. If you have an ounce of humanity in you, you'll see why I am not keen to let my life be what it is.