Excerpts from ‘What is Tao ?’
by Alan Watts
We have been brought up in a religious tradition, that to a great extent has taught us to mistrust the nature around us and to mistrust our own selves as well. But the irony here is that if u cannot trust your own basic nature, then how can you trust your own mistrusting ? Isnt your mistrusting a part of your nature ? How do u know that your mistrusting is not wrong as well ? If you do not trust your own nature, you become as tangled up as anyone can be.
Confucius was the first to say that he would rather trust human passions and instincts than trust human ideas about what is right, for like the Taoists he realized that we have to allow all living things to look after themselves.
