Comments on: 3. If you do not adulate the worthy… http://www.taooftheday.com/archives/6 Your Daily Dose of Taoism Tue, 02 Mar 2010 16:43:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: Ptuny http://www.taooftheday.com/archives/6/comment-page-1#comment-7 Ptuny Thu, 05 Apr 2007 23:19:43 +0000 http://taooftheday.com/archives/6#comment-7 Personally I read it as "Do not covet, do not be selfish!" It is okay to "like" and "want" Mediocrity cannot be contained. To strive to be better is inherent in the human psyche. Just do not push it! Share it, and more will be your reward! Personally I read it as “Do not covet, do not be selfish!”
It is okay to “like” and “want”
Mediocrity cannot be contained.
To strive to be better is inherent in the human psyche.
Just do not push it!
Share it, and more will be your reward!

]]> By: Dr_Arcane http://www.taooftheday.com/archives/6/comment-page-1#comment-6 Dr_Arcane Thu, 05 Apr 2007 16:24:04 +0000 http://taooftheday.com/archives/6#comment-6 I have mixed thoughts on this one. Obviously, it goes to the idea that material things are not good, and desire for these things is even worse. I get that. But it also seems to advocate mediocrity. "Nice things are bad. Eat your slop and go back to your hovel!" The "Sage" that these writing refer to is the leader of the people. So in this case, the leader sounds almost Machiavellian. "Fill their bellies and they will follow you." I have mixed thoughts on this one.

Obviously, it goes to the idea that material things are not good, and desire for these things is even worse. I get that.

But it also seems to advocate mediocrity. “Nice things are bad. Eat your slop and go back to your hovel!”

The “Sage” that these writing refer to is the leader of the people. So in this case, the leader sounds almost Machiavellian. “Fill their bellies and they will follow you.”

]]> By: Ptuny http://www.taooftheday.com/archives/6/comment-page-1#comment-5 Ptuny Thu, 05 Apr 2007 15:54:55 +0000 http://taooftheday.com/archives/6#comment-5 Sure discounts the "Supply & Demand" theory that marketers and advitisers have drummen into our empty little heads doesn't it? Most desire(demand) comes to us through marketing, they(Marketers) sure would have a hard time with this one! ~~P'tuny ~~who refuses to buy a "Brand" lable anything, becouse why would she pay a fortune to advertise some product designers name, she thinks that somewhere the tables were turned on us! Sure discounts the
“Supply & Demand” theory that marketers and advitisers have drummen into our empty little heads doesn’t it?
Most desire(demand) comes to us through marketing, they(Marketers) sure would have a hard time with this one!
~~P’tuny
~~who refuses to buy a “Brand” lable anything, becouse why would she pay a fortune to advertise some product designers name, she thinks that somewhere the tables were turned on us!

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