Eastern Philosophy: Taoism

An Ode To Lao-Tzu

I am the brown leaf
Swept from underneath
Blown across a beaten path
Ignored by strangers
Touched by the winds wrath

I am the angry downpour
Blasted from heavens teeth
Giving a cliff-side bird grief

I am the sack of rice
Providing food for all the mice
In the tiny house
Filled with spice and louse

I am the boiling kettle
Made with crude iron metal
Warming the lonely traveler
Who has only just begun to settle

I am in all, and all is in me
I am in the bird, and I am in the tree
If you look for me
You will not find
If you think of me
Do not use your mind

Feminism: A Movement Caused By Men

For centuries, men have always given women a crippling stereotype which is to say that all women are inherently mad. Until recent history, women have settled for the lesser role in the sexes, allowing men to steer history on their own course. But, what these men of history never realized is that you cannot judge another unless that trait is already recognized in oneself. Therefore, with this logic we are all "crazy". It's absurd to think that one sex was belittled for so long a time, for women are our nature. Typically, men rely on their wits to make decisions before they act upon them, often ignoring intuitive emotions that women listen to. Maybe the male resentment of the woman has to do with the age old repressed femininity that the male contains but does not reveal or know how to consciously reveal. This side of the male has often been left astray and pushed aside for the egotistical masculine pride. Therefore, every man has similar emotional capacity as a woman but he is often deprived of such to retain the egotistic trait. In this deprivation of emotion, a man may find himself full of repressed emotions; leading to an overall disconnection from himself and the opposite sex. Hence, where the feminist movement finds its roots; in the heart of the broken man. Men have tried to understand women from a rational point of view, similar in the way science and mathematics are understood. All along, the only true understanding of sexes comes from the deep emotional connection that is formed between the two that cannot be formed directly through the conscious mind. Every male has an "anima", or unconscious feminine component. Conversely, every female has an "animus", or unconscious masculine component. The point being, men and women are connected in ways we may not be able to fathom by simply thinking about them. There is no man without woman, and no woman without man. If women are crazy, then men must be as well. Shall we quell the overdue ember of masculine pride in order to end the inflamed feminist movement? Settle our differences, ending sexism or whatever individual bias one might find against another sex. Only once we truly come to understand each other as parts of the whole will differences be realized as similarities.