English reflection: humility

Thousands of years ago a great Chinese philosopher, Chuang Tse, expressed the bases of what human behavior should be: humility. But not adjusted to the western concept of meekness and self-sacrifice, but based on the simple recognition that the human being knows very little about the great mysteries of the universe and only occupies a tiny and insignificant redoubt in the general plan of the things found in the.
This is of extreme importance in the thought of the Tao, where the inherent superiority of the emptiness over the form and of the stillness over the activity is recognized, as well as its indivisible mutual dependence, constituting itself in an outstanding point of many oriental philosophies. Most Westerners, so turned towards concrete form and activity, find it difficult to appreciate this point.

Because westerns only think in themselves and how get more and more everyday, they are blind for expensives ways to live, and yes i know all westerns don't do That but many yes All this leads us to a single conclusion: the absence of humility (in the oriental concept of the term) is what has damaged and continues to harm all those who occupy high positions in society, whether the government, the legislature, jurisdictional, religious confessions, companies, art, science and technology.

They are consumed by an unhealthy vanity. The vanity we perceive, for example, at the present moment, in officials, judges and legislators, is the most obvious lack of authenticity, which is committed by mistake, stupidity or ill will, in the appreciation of one's own worth.

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