Singapore time 7.50 am 8th May 2008Is not God's Way (or Heaven's Way) like a bow well bent?
High and mighty are brought low; the low caste are up-righted; those with plenty are uprooted while those hungry are fed.
God's Way is to uproot the rich and feed the hungry. What human does is different; it is to rob the poor to feed the rich. Who can with abundance benefit the world, it is only he who has Tao. Therefore the Sage can act alone without the whim of other. He will succeed but not authoritative as he prefers to be the same as others, not their superior.
Bow is to show our eye-brows. In
The above from Comment on Daodejing. Scriptures like to use analogies to describe the Mark on our forehead. In Bible see Tablenacle and Hebrews chapter 9 verses 2 to 5. In Zhuangzi, there is the big bird and the giant fish. In Bible, when you see vultures flying above, you know there is a corpse below. In Bhagavad, the Tree of Life at its introduction and the bow. Krishna and Arjuna were at the centre of the battle field between 2 armies. So the bow is to signifies the eye-brows. In Quran the repeated verse is 'Garden of Eden, underneath which rivers flow'. Rivers flow are our tears, to pin point the Mark at the nose bridge. In Revelation, the New Temple is about the same. Water flows out from under the Throne.
The passege also say of Nature's Way to cut down the evils and help the down trodden. Men's way is to enrich the powerful and those dictators.
The Way of the Sage is to depend on himself, not others. With whatever been given to him by Nature, he develops or cultivate self to help self, family, country and the world. He will know what is expected of him and work according to whatever instructions written in all the scriptures.
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