How Should We Live- The Tao Te Ching

Throughout literature we are confronted with a question that every human being may have a different opinion on. How should we live? The Analects by Confucius were one opinion of living. He called his theory “the Way”. A way we should lead our lives, applying virtues, values, and morals to our everyday lives. The Tao Te Ching inspires it’s readers to follow “the Tao”. These two terms seem very similar. A path or way that one takes to achieve “goodness” as said by Confucius. The Bible is also a similar work or works since it was written by many different people. The Bible inspires us to follow Christ and God in order to attain salvation and, “a place among those who are by faith,” in the Lord. They teach us lessons through passages that we may be able to reflect and apply into our own every day lives.
Many people follow at least one of these “ways” and believe in it extraordinarily. Christians follow Christ, followers of Confucius walk “the Way,” and the people who read and follow the Tao Te Ching, aspire to have aspects found in “the Tao.” Like education different people give us different sides and methods to do certain things. We can either talk back and give them what we think, or we can take what they all say and filter the things that we don’t agree with out, keeping the more important points. We can learn a great deal about life, and the meaning of life from these works and they are absolutely worth reading.