The Tao Makes You Whole

Why do you go out and conquer the world? Is it because you were once humiliated by a coach when you wanted to make it into the college basketball team? Now you are minting money at work, you have objectively made it, but you still push yourself hard and you objectively walk over others - you simply can't stop. Why?

Why do you stay away from success? Why don’t you join the world? Why don’t you get a meaningful job and manifest the material abundance the Tao has prepared for you? Is it because your mom's value system has become part of you?Marry somebody rich and be good at ordering your domestic help around, wasn't that how she always pictured "having made it"?

Why do you have these violent images inside of you? Is it because your domicile nature encourages others to walk all over you, while you have internalized the Lord's mandate that if someone slaps you, you need to offer the other cheek?

Why do you constantly worry? Is it because your father screamed at you whenever something quite didn't work out? Is it that you are now reliving the fears he never could handle himself?

A spiritual path is a soul searching journey. It is a path towards knowing yourself, a journey towards overcoming your past with the goal of reaching wholeness. When you reflect on the four characters we have presented to you, none of them are completely happy. All of them are restless deep inside because they can feel that something is missing and unless they manage to heal this psychological wound they once incurred, they will never truly experience who they were truly born to be.

The Tao leads you on a path of discovering who you truly are. Along the Tao you will learn how to uninstall everything that is artificial and external to you. You will stop doing things based on other's expectations and you will transcend the little psychological cuts from the past.

If you look carefully you can observe that everything that drives you is a result of your upbringing, your conditioning, the expectations of your parents and society and the belief systems that you have created for yourself. So many of us have chosen careers to live out the dreams of our parents. And then are the rebels who do exactly the opposite, but they have a chip on their shoulder too. You probably have reached mid-life as we have. Well, today is a perfect opportunity to turn this boat around and start sailing in a direction that will make you whole. Do not regret the journey that got you here. Everything that has happened thus far in your life prepares you beautifully for the spiritual journey home.

Knowing why you are wired the way you are is an important psychological break-through, but it is not an be all and end all. Your drives are still "you", whether you head agrees with them or not. That's where the Tao comes in. If you want to change, the Tao will show you how. The aggressive executive from above is given opportunity after opportunity to be kind to those he cares for, while the spiritual aspirant is encouraged to become a little more assertive in his day-to-day interactions. The stay-home mom is gently pushed to become more entrepreneurial, while the worry-ridden business woman is shown how to feel the fear and do it anyway. The Tao has already mapped out how to bring you home on the fastest route possible, all you really have to do is to show up in life and put your best foot forward.

The Tao shows you step by step how to get back your natural freedom. We all come from different starting points, but along the Tao we all join life, live our life to the biggest possibility and make ourselves a present to the world. Were we walk there is joy, love, abundance and serenity. If this is what you want to experience, please join us in our journey! It is lots of fun. Be curious about yourself. Ask how you have come here and how to proceed and all the answers will be given to you. That's what the Tao does, day-in, day-out. All you have to do is to join.

By Christian and Su Zhen