AWAKEN TO YOUR COSMIC RICHES

 "HOW TO AWAKEN TO YOUR COSMIC RICHES"

The contrasting lives of two famous teachers show the difference between Forced Living and Easy Flow.

CONFUCIUS was an advocate of correct public behavior. He taught good manners, social reform, and submission to man-made moral codes. He offered shallow formulas for getting through life, admitting that his platitudes were borrowed from other men. The inner life of cosmic peace was unknown to Confucius; he himself was a victim of Forced Living.

LAO-TSE was the exact opposite. He cared nothing for the public parading of self-proclaimed virtues. He pointed out that human rules of conduct do not make men truly moral; to the contrary, they supply clever masks for hypocrisy and cruelty. As for living by popular slogans, they create mass misery and national neurosis. Lao-tse stressed individual effort toward personal freedom, teaching that happiness lies in a spontaneous outflowing of one's natural self. Lao-tse was himself a living example of Easy Flow."

How to Let Yourself Be Carried by Life's Easy Flow, Pathways to Perfect Living, Chapter 9, page 107