Knowing The Tao

The Tao does not set parameters on right and wrong or morals. If the mind can adopt this procedure it can then get the answer to any situation it is interested in. Many people sternly state that the I Ching or other divination methods cannot be used for gambling purposes , while others say they have successfully used it to make money on stocks. The truth of the matter is that the Tao is not a personality, but an energy. It doesn't know or doesn't care about stocks or gambling or any other name you wish to give a human phenomena. In one sense it can be compared to a cold bitter wind...it responds to a person the way a person responds to it. To the wind it doesn't matter how "good" a person is or how "bad". If a priest is stuck in a blizzard and a thief steals his coat and gloves, the wind would freeze the priest to death and the thief would benefit. The wind has no opinion either way. Only a society calls a thing good or bad....or a saint or thief. The Tao does not discriminate in this way. A Christian or a Catholic or other religion would call this a cruel God....a Taoist would call it pure energy.