Daily Tao - 74

Jul 28, 2012 19:18

If people's lives suck,
and they look forward to death,
what good does it do
to threaten to kill them?

If people are afraid to die,
and the wicked are condemned to death,
then who would dare to commit evil?

But that doesn't mean you or I
can just take life and death
into our own hands.
That'd be like walking up
to an industrial buzzsaw
and trying to use it
without any training.
We'd only end up hurting ourselves.
-

The Beatrice Tao.

Daily Tao - 74

violence, taoism, gnosis and agnosis, tao te ching, beatrice tao

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