Tao Te Ching: You Are a Lao Tzu When Lao Tzu Is Not Your Ideal
If you want to really get to somebody, get to the Truth, do not get to the expression of one particular Lao Tzu. That is just one particular expression. And that was Lao Tzu’s expression. It can never be your own expression. Connect instead to the Source from where Lao Tzu drew his words. Do not connect to Lao Tzu. Lao Tzu is not original. Lao Tzu is an expression. The original is the Centre from where a thousand Lao Tzus emerge.
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Acharya Prashant: The biggest damage that you do to others comes as very innocuous, unnoticeable, run-of-the-mill actions, like the street vendor selling his oily and stale food. It appears so very normal, does it not? Have you ever seen the street vendor, huh, selling his street food? Does he strike you as abnormal? They dot the streets. They are there after every fifty metres, are they not? When you look at them, do you jump with surprise? Do you say, “Oh my God! What an enemy of mankind!”? Does that happen?
That street vendor is you, very common, apparently very harmless, but really, very, very harmful, and tasty as well; delicious, attractive. And when somebody would tell you that you are a burden upon public health, you would say, “No, no, no. I am only doing what everybody else is doing. I am just taking away 10 minutes of everybody’s time.”
All the literature that we study, spirituality, this and that, that is useless without an observation of our daily life. And daily life is right now, nowhere else.
