Cautionary Wisdom

I recently read the following from 'The Tao' by Mark Forstater:

"Transmit the message exactly as it stands. Don't transmit it with any excessive language. In this way the envoy can keep himself whole."
'Consider how skillful wrestlers begin with friendly trials of strength, but always end with underhand attempts to gain victory. As the pressure grows, their moves become wily
and clever.
'Those drinking at ceremonies at first observe good order, but always end in disorder. As their excitement grows, etiquette turns into uproar.
'In all things it's the same. People are at first sincere, but always end by becoming unpleasant. At the beginning things are treated as trivial, but as the end draws near, they assume great proportions.
'Words are no different than wind and waves, and actions are a matter of gain and loss. Wind and waves are easily stirred up. and questions of gain and loss easily lead to danger.
'So quarrels are stirred up by nothing so much as clever words and twisted speech, and animosities arise on both sides. When animals are threatened with death, they bellow
wildly, and their breath rages angrily. Cornered, they lash out. Similarly. If people are pushed too far, they lash out - why they don't know. Since they don't know why, who knows how it will end?"

I take this to heart. Because what I've been doing in this blog here is a form of negotiations. I have been trying to rediscover and re-inject some traditional Eastern wisdom back into Christianity, which I believe has lost this element through the years. I do believe that many times when something does not make sense in the Bible or our religion, that if a person looks at whatever it is through an Eastern viewpoint, tremendous vistas of understanding open up.
There are many in and out of churches nowadays who do not see the relevance of the traditional approach to Christianity. If I may anticipate your response to saying that-- No, we shouldn't try to accommodate to try to make everyone happy. But-- We should examine what we are doing to make sure that it is authentic, not to the customs of people but to the intent of the original text. We should constantly take a look to see if modern society has culturally moved on and left the church back in time and irrelevant. 'What should always stay relevant?' is the question.

So in the future I'm going to try to concentrate heavily on quoting text, and minimize any attempts of my ego to be clever. Because whatever the case, I don't matter.