Are You Dead Or Alive?

 In the Tao there is a verse that caught my attention and it explains how it is to be dead versus to be alive.  It all concludes to what the many religions are fight over and about. 

76 - Rigid behaviour will kill you

When alive, the body is supple, yielding. In death, the body becomes hard, unyielding.  Living plants are flexible, In death, they become dry and brittle.  Therefore, stubborn people are disciples of death, but Flexible people are disciples of life.  In the same way, Inflexible soldiers cannot win (a victory). And the hardest trees are readiest for an axe to chop them down Tough guys sink to the bottom, while Flexible people rise to the top.

 

It seems that having an open mind to whatever thre is in the Universe will sustain yur life then thinking insdie the box of a set dogma or doctrine.

Are you one with an open mind and flexible or are you set inside a doctrine that is rigid?