Tao Thay Shang Men - English

The Crimson Dusk
The humans’ life is like the passing time, like the sun’s cycle, so we ought to learn from nature’s phenomenon in order to get the wisdom in going through the life itself.

A new born human beings, is like the morning of beginning of the day, the sunlight that is start shining, as a new born baby, entering the world with lots of hopes, but does not know whether it is going to be a rainy day or a sunny day.
A new born human beings, is like a white piece of paper which is still blank, not having any strokes on it, and it is very determined by what will be written on that white piece of paper.
So it has to be taken good care of, and be prepared wisely in order to be written later with good deeds, honesty and everything that is good.

A day will start changing from morning to noon, the sun starts shining brightly, this shows that human being who is in their youth, they have to struggle with perseverance, as strong as the light of that sun.
Struggling to fill his life, struggle for preparing his foothold in life, struggle to reach his aims.
During this period, make sure not to determine wrongly about the principal that should be fought, and not to fall into the mud hole of life.
Fill this period with some knowledge which is much needed, consolidate the religion knowledge which will be the life barometer, revise the physical and the way of thinking towards the perfection.
Approaching the mid day, as if the mature period in human life, in this middle age, life should be stable, the carrier, the knowledge, the religion and all other aspects should be mature as well.
In this period, don’t feel satisfied easily, if we do so, then we will move backwards, it should be filled with social activities, try to think about others, start to fill our life with as much as possible about the philosophy of life, start to find the meaning of life, start to be stable in the religion.
A lot of impacts were experienced until this age; those are the life experience which should be considered as a precious teacher.
Through the life experiences we will truly understand the meaning of life itself.

After the mid day, comes the dusk. The sun starts to overcast; the crimson dusk is still shining. So does the human life, entering the old age, even though the physical abilities are decreasing, however the spirit of life and ray of good deeds should look like the shinning crimson dusk.
In this period, someone has to be able to gush out the wisdom, to give comfort, to show his soul maturity.
With the life experience, with the knowledge ability, with the maturity in religion, someone should always be able to act wisely, not vacillate easily, could adapt better, and always spray the good deeds.
If not, then he will be expelled in this life. When someone is not wise enough in their old age, has difficulty in adapting himself, still has a high egoism, then he will be isolated, will be lonely, his life won’t be happy.
This is the period to prepare in entering the end of life, when the meaning of life is understood, when the level of Dao has already stabled, when the life is full with happiness, then entering that period will be done with a peaceful mind.
Just like changing clothes, like moving to other place, with a stable heart, with the perfect Dao’s fruit, in becoming the gods/goddess. All of those are according to power of nature, according to the Dao.