TAO vs. HARMONY

18. Can scientific developments solve political problems?

What we need to know is that although we succeeded in life cloning, but that does not mean human beings can create life and master life. Clone, a sort of trick, is product of nature at a specific time in human’s society. No matter how great your achievements were, no matter what you have created, and no matter how successful you were, natural conditions are the first factor, substances being the second, and human’s actions can only be posed in the third place. That is to say, without natural conditions, nothing can people achieve. Have you ever seen that people made a drop of water on condition that is separated from nature and substances? (Regarding this issue, please refer to A Letter to The United Nations for details.)

People’s superstition for science is the biggest misunderstanding about spirits and minds. People’s success in material creation is being magnified to the extent of being capable of conquering the nature and life. This demonstrates that people are ignorant of the essence of life and nature.

As ancient oriental sages says: “apart from nature, what could I say?” This is not humility, but a truth. The essence of nature is the Absolute Void. The Absolute Void is the general energy that produces the substance of material, the substance of gas, the Heaven and Earth and the Myriad Things, the general energy that dominates the running of the Heaven and Earth and the Myriad Things. Substance is illusive form of the Void. The Earth was not given birth by its own, but originated from the Universe’s Absolute Void. Human beings were not given birth by their own, but originated from the Heaven and Earth. Consequently, is the essence of human beings the Void? Are human beings the product of nature? Are people’s actions a demonstration of nature? How tiny, and how incapable are Human beings in the vast nature! How ignorant are human being of nature. It is because people are wrapped up by selfish and blinkered things, such as their own desires, ambitions, erroneous thinking, vanity and prejudices, that they cannot accept and understand this truth. Only by getting rid of these selfishness and prejudices can one jump out of “the bottom of well” and see the true appearance of the great nature.

Lastly, I want to say that if we want the society to be harmonious, we must recognize nature, return to nature, and follow nature. Any action that denies nature violates laws and principles of nature will be punished seriously by nature. This is proved by the existing disasters caused by the destruction of ecological environment.

By Orient Dawn
Date: Year 2001