Singapore time 8.04 am 6th May 2008The world's weak plus soft, nothing can compare to water; but when water attacks rigid and strong, none can withstand it, and nothing can alter its way.
So, weak wins over strong, soft wins over steel. The world: none able to know? none able to act? So the Sage said:- 'Be a country's dirt is called lord of the country (god of the land and grain); be a country's inauspicious person is called the world's master.'
Correct saying if reversed or this is paradox.
This chapter is something like the expounder of 4-line stanza in Diamond Sutra, Son-of-Perdiction in the Bible and 3rd to be reinforced in the Quran.
Chinese versions are different.
The above is from Comment on Daodejing. The demonstration of water as a weak component over strong and hard is clear before our eys, as evidence is everywhere to show the destruction of the fiery water during disasters. The Sage has to learn this lesson that even he might look, he can overcome major difficulties and obstructions. And the shape of water in Chinese text looks like our face with eyes looking inwardly at the nose. How many of you observe this image ?
Weakness and gentleness can overcome the big and strong. There are many instances and are recorded, but few took notice. Just reading the Bible, Quran, Buddhist sutras, Zhuangzi, Mengzi, Hui Neng etc etc, you can come over many stories about it. Hui Neng stretched out his neck to receive the 3 blows from his assasson, but was unharmed. And it took him over 20 years of cultivation and preaching to achieve that. Bodhidharma could walk over water with aid of a leaf or stick. Jesus could walk on the water. These are few examples. But the true show of force will be by me. DOOM will wipe out all those opposing me because I am a conqueror of the world. So that I can bring world peace.
Scriptures have written the speaker of TRUTH will be rejected by the people of the day. So he will be the shame of his nation and an evil to all others. Like in Thessaolians 2 chapter 2, the Son of Perdition has to appear first. Why ? Why the Lord has to blow him into destruction ? Like the expounder of the 4-line stanza in Diamond Sutra. People will scold him so that he can become Buddha. Or Luke chapter 17, Son of Man is doing the job like Noah, people rejecting him. All these say the same thing, the Final Savior is One to be reject by the people. So DOOM comes to wake up the people to obey him.
Don't you think God or Nature is funny ? That a nobody can be the world's Savior ?
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