Oh my pride and Honor. How blind one leads life with these in control. Tho Dao speaks out against such things as they lead to the complete opposites as well. If you have honor then in your self serving honor you will commit dishonorable deeds. One leads to another and one is the same as the opposite. The birth leads to death and death begins life.
The blind cling to honor, pride and self elevation, for that is what pride and honor is about, it is for the self elevation of oneself. And if one thinks in terms of self then one separates themselves from the whole. A fraction of the pie, a piece of the cake is not as grand as the whole.
With pride comes another subservient blindness, that is a demand of respect. Respect should never exist as it separates the way one should act with the way one believes to act due to pride and honor.
Should I open a door any different for a president than the common stranger? Should respect and position matter to anyone. If respect is present then disrespect is not far behind, if pride and honor is present then rage is closing in. If one cares about positions then they have lost the reason that position should exist in the first place. The teach should be a student and the student become a teacher, only in doing both at once can one truly say they have mastered the art of teaching.
Only by truly caring about the student can one truly give the wisdom. Instructions are easy to give, but the wisdom and life philosophy is nothing without the action of the heart. Empty words falling on pride filled ears.
Due to respect the words are just shut out, and no words said to the one teaching, with no words spoken back not information given to the teacher to learn from, without the symbiotic relationship of teaching and learning the teach can not teach, the student can not learn, and all due to the blindness and deafness which pride causes, honor is hurt, and the road becomes an impasse.
Center thyself, become whole, drop the blinding ideas of pride and honor, of rage, and anger, of hopelessness and hopefulness. Live for all and in that living accomplish all that you need to by not lifting a finger for your own benefit. Become the ace in the deck of cards, your only goal is to make another person win, to present a opportunity in life for others to take. In the end the person states I got lucky, or I made it happen. The credit goes elsewhere, and elsewhere it should, as no matter how you present a thing humanity sees it as self raising, and self importance. Why does one need credit to perform a good deed. Why does one need to give respect in order to receive it. Why should one earn respect if one respects everything equally. If respect and disrespect are equally given to all then no respect and disrespect can be obtained.
Pride deafens those from a gentler life. Pride demands a bigger paycheck, a fancy house, a title in life, respect of others. It demands on throw away people without remorse due to a self interested honor code.
What is right is also wrong. What one sees in life is not the complete picture. The artist hides many things in each painting and only after hours and hours of looking may one find the many details of the picture, but looking at the picture as a whole and one can certainly smile. Why not understand the picture in its entirety, instead of looking at it in sections. Throw those people to the curb and sections is what occurs.
Remove the limiters and people become mindful of the path. Teach them to give and they will learn not to take, remove the separation and one can only but become whole. What is good, but the beginning of evil. What is evil but the opposing force of good. In who's eyes states this is good and that is evil, when another may say the opposite. A fight of pride and honor looms in such ideological separations. What is day without night, does the each change it's shape at night, or disappear in the darkness. Is the ground still ground, and sky still sky in the day and night? So can you separate the two or say it is just a passage of nature.
Pride what a blinding ideological destructive force. Honor just leads to fights and arguments. Both lead to a sense of justice instead of a sense of wholeness. Sense of justice can lead to a path of destruction for those that could with a since of friendship and of concern can be shown a better life style. Pride and Honor what use has it really served you. Do you need them to live true, do you use them as a crutch to do what you want to others and justify it with these concepts, to self elevate your own position. To seek out the common ideas of people and use them to elevate oneself is to become bound by those very ideas.
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