Letting Things Be
ACCORDING to the Chinese philosopher, Han Fei, writing in the third century BCE:
“All things have their own different principle, whereas Tao brings the principles of all things into single agreement. Therefore it can be both one thing and another, and is not in one thing only.”
Alan Watts echoed these sentiments by noting that
“if each thing follows its own li [custom] it will harmonise with all other things following theirs, not by reason of rule imposed from above but by their mutual resonance (ying) and interdependence.”
This Taoist concept, one which follows the pattern of symbiosis, is exactly what is being proposed by National-Anarchists. In the words of Lao-tzu:
“Those who would take over the world and manage it, I see that they cannot grasp it; for the world is a spiritual vessel and cannot be forced. Whoever forces it spoils it. Whoever grasps it loses it.”
Until each being realises to the full who they are, wich is unique to them alone, the messiah will not come - my memory of a zadiq's adivce to a young rabbi not to try imitate famous rebbes as role-models. in Buber's version. Hillel's famous advice: If I am not for myself, who will be? If I am only for myself, what am I? If not now when? Victor Frankl if I remeber correctly, translates this as: If I do not do the tasks uniquely set for me to do, who will? These tasks are ever present, so they must be attended to every moment. These tasks are connected to the whole of creation and beyond, and creation depends on each of us doing these tasks, just as we depend on creation. Similar to the requirement as I understand it, of Hasidic kabbalah that each of us must help the shechinah to liberate the divine spark in every being, and thus infuse/transmogrify that being with divinity.
Very wise words. Thanks.