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GUIDANCE

Worship with your conscience,
Receive grace with humility.
Guide with awareness,
Lead with modesty.


The altar is a tool. If we kneel before it and say we have done
wrong, we are really telling that to ourselves. If we give thanks for
our good fortune, we are expressing our modest appreciation for good
luck. There is no outside force listening to us. There is no divine
retribution for our wickedness. The altar is merely symbolic. Those who
follow Tao use it to focus their self-awareness.

When we step away from the altar, we should not lose self-awareness.
We should not take the fact that worship is symbolic to behave in
immoral ways. Instead, we still have to act with a conscience and lead
others without manipulating them or taking advantage of them.

It takes maturity to grasp that there are no gods and yet still
behave as if there were. It takes insight to know that you must be your
own disciplinarian. Only the wisest can lay down their own "divine laws"
and find guidance as if they were truly heaven's word.




365 Tao: Daily Meditations
Deng Ming-Dao


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