Accord to the New Era

August 30, 2006

There is a story to begin with this writing:
Once upon a time, there was a couple that lived modestly in a village. One day, since they had some extra money, and also because it had been years the husband had never made new cloth, so he bought cloth for making a new pair of trousers.
When he got home, he gave that cloth to his wife, and asked her to sew a new pair of trousers and also he gave her his old trousers as the sample, he said: “please make e a new pair of trousers for me, and use this old trousers as the sample”. Then the husband left to work for a whole day.
In late afternoon, when he got home, he found out that his wife had finished sewed the new trousers, but with the size and model that exactly the same as his old trousers, including the patches here and there that exactly the same as his old trousers.
The husband had turned his face, hold his anger, however, he could say nothing.
Because the wife had blindly followed his word, and had made the old trousers as the master to be duplicate.

In our life, we often see that a lot among DaoYou (Tao’s fellows) make the Ancient Theories of Tao as guidance, without processing and adjusting them to suit this era. More over, if these have been passed to others, this would create confusion and misleading.
We have to be dare and able to give opinion (or evaluate) towards those ancient theories, and have to be dare to correct them, because those ancient theories are not all of them are right.
Often, those theories have already not suitable with this era, or even they are wrong indeed and need to be corrected and amended.
The Tao’s theories should be always suitable to the current era, as the sun light which always gives “something new” when it comes out in the morning every day, even though the sun itself is something most ancient.
If the theory and our knowledge could not suit with the era, so we would be same as the wife of the above story, that is being trapped with something of ancient, and would raise confusion either to ourselves or to others.

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