Conversations of the Taoist Master Fu Hsiang

Fu Hsiang: So it is impossible for any being to experience love or to acquire these virtues without an environment that imposes limits; and this, spiritually, is the real purpose of our incarnation into matter.
Since love is the empowering virtue, the highest soul aspiration which we share is to give love to others. The other virtues are simply expressions of love. But love for its action requires, limitation and separation and above all self-consciousness which requires that omnipotence has to be laid aside.

Men Chow: Sifu you are saying that the purpose of the unfolding of the Tao is to experience love?

Fu Hsiang: I am. For without the limitation of form, there is no good, there is no evil and there is no consciousness and there is no love. The purpose of the unfolding is for the Tao to experience love through becoming conscious of itself. Since we are expressions of the Tao, we are also the vehicle of its action, and so the highest aspiration of the soul is to overcome our separation through selfless love.

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