Chapter 54
Offering yourself to the TAO is the supreme self-sacrifice. Start with yourself and the rest will follow. Whoever is planted in the TAO T-Ching will not be uprooted. Whoever embraces the TAO will not slip away. Their presence will be like as a shrine for the Ancestors, and from generation to generation they shall be honored by our practicing and keeping alive the TAO T-Chings. Let the TAO be present in your life and you will become genuine, peaceful, happy, and prosperous. Let it be present in your family and your family will flourish. Let it be present in your village and your village will become strong. In your state, the state will become abundant. Let it be present in your country, and your country will prosper and be an example to all the countries in the world. In the world, and it will become universal. Let it be present in the universe, and the universe will prevail. The universe will sing. To cultivate the TAO is to weed out the superfluous stuff. This is the duty of The O-cult, restoring the essential nothing, the essence-O te. Cultivate TAO in yourself, in your family, in your friends, in your community, in your state, in your country, in your culture, in your world, in your universe, and all will flourish with peace, prosperity, and longevity. To the extent that any of these part from the TAO, chaos will reign in their life experience. Not recognizing the TAO in your life is your delusion from reality, and is directly proportional to your problems to get back to center. See a person as a person, a family as a family, a village as a village, a state as a state, a country as a country, a world as a world, and a universe as a universe, to know how each is in the flow of the TAO Te Ching. A genuine person is straight-forward. He has nothing to hide, nothing to reveal, and nothing to defend. How do I know this is true? By what is within me. This is true Intuition.