On Good and Evil

To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man. 
(William Shakespeare)

I work in the investment business as some of you know and I always used to think that I have friends and foes. The other day it struck me that I wouldn't say this today anymore. Let me give you an example: say I want to give a presentation, express my view and there is someone who competes with me for my spot. Suddenly I am forced to postpone my presentation and, given the limited availability of presentation slots, have to do it a month later instead. Well, as chance has it, the message of my investment recommendation is much more timely that way and my audience is finally ready to receive it. So who can say whether an interruption of your agenda is good and bad? Does it even make sense to judge the mind set of the colleague who may have inconvenienced me at one point?

Traveling the Tao is to learn that the notion of 'good and evil' is just not useful. Everybody has a role to play in this magnificent theater play called life. The 'villain' has as much right to receive an Oscar as the 'hero'. All you have to do is to make your subconscious journey a conscious one. That's what the Tao will do for you. It brings your subconscious agenda out in the open and suddenly there no longer will be good or evil, wrong or right. There will only be an action that is true to your Self and one that isn't. Once you have reached that stage you will suddenly see  that everything is perfect as is