Corsets View On Taoism pt 1.

Throughout history people wage war and manipulate the world through boisterous acts and claims for the greater good. However these are just that, unruly acts that mean little for those who truly know and understand the dark virtue of the Tao Te Ching. First to understand the Tao Te Ching one must understand dark virtue as it was meant to be interpreted. Within the community and time era it is considered that Confucius philosophy represent the masculine and the Tao represented the more feminine virtue also called dark virtue. In the cause of the Tao Te Ching dark simply means the more subtle or submissive, the light in balance of the universe. 
The Tao Te Ching is broken up into two parts. The Te Ching and the Tao Ching, the prior being the start point for all things Tao are incorporated from the Te Ching. With this knowledge in tow, a true analysis of the Te Ching can begin. From the beginning of the poetry, the book emphasizes on how no action and meekness can overcome even the greatest of opponents through dark virtue. This concept is best and most clearly depicted in the sixth poem as they he chose an example from the prominent field of politics. One one side you have a thunderous man demanding and banging his fist to  get the way that he wants, and on the other side you have a man who remains calm, who does not raise his voice nor argue. You do not meet force with force but with deflection. The man who retains his virtue shall overcome simply because he displays more strength through his non action than the other with all his show. This is because according to dark virtue the harder one tries the more obstacles you will follow throughout the goal because you are trying to force against the natural order of the universe. If you follow the way of dark virtue the natural order will continue and things will fall into place. 
This concept is advanced upon during the eleventh poem where it states, “If you wish to gain the empire one should refrain from meddling. By the time you meddle you are not equal to the task of gaining the empire.”1  What this means is, if you are taking action by meddling than you are really not accomplishing anything, you are just distorting the natural order of the world and to abuse virtue in this way will only cause more obstacles. According to this poem if you wish to gain the empire than you should take it for non-action in not meant in a literal sense. To take no action means to take no action that is against the natural flow of the universe, such as what happens when you meddle. However if you are fit to take the empire then you should just reach out for it and dark virtue will guide you and allow it to be possible for you are living in the now. 
The now is thoroughly represented in the Te Ching as it starts off with a brief history of the ways of the world during the first poem before expanding upon current state of affairs. According to the first poem of the Te Ching it is with the dark virtue to live in the now for rights wear tin as the world falls into a natural degrade. One should choose the fruit over the flower, the thick not the thin because foreknowledge will only lead to folly. Where there is creation there must be destruction for it is part of the way, it is one of the core concepts of the universe, balance. To try and interfere with this will only lead to dishonorable acts that is why the sage acts as he does. 
The sage treats all things in their natural state as if they are good because within the universe, all things in nature have virtue and will do what comes naturally to them, it is man that looses knowledge through corruption and violates the world. For a sage he treats all men as if they are good and right even if this is not true because this allows the universe to instill a subtle manipulation upon them all to bend them to the will od the sage and bring them back to the dark virtue thus one cagain completing the cycle. Even in dark times of need one must always remember to allow the natural order of the universe to ensue.




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