"Tao"

"Confucius said, The Way is not far from man. When a man pursues the Way and yet remains away from man, his course cannot be considered the Way." [Doctrine of the Mean, 13]

I have observed that most of our brothers and sisters who are in constricted practice of their conservative kind of religious factions somehow forgets their human relationship with the other people. I know some of this people are really fastened to such of their belief that they tend to ignore the value of their fellow human beings. How can I say so?

I know this guy, a friend of mine, who was actually a member of a certain denomination of the Christian belief. He was totally clasped to the moral ideas he acquired by reading the Scriptures and listening to some of the group sharing. One day, he told me that I must change, for what I do practice is bad, and it will not save me at the end of the time. This thing he referred though as a subject for change is my habit in playing computer games. Well, I was ashamed, mortified and somehow humiliated for the fact that I am guilty of doing such. But how was it related to that of the idea of morality anyway? Nevertheless, I felt like I was detached from the other human beings. Such detachment really hurt me, for the fact that I am only a person, who is by nature, desires the 'sense of belongingness'; to belong and not to be rejected, especially by someone who I consider to be a friend of mine.

If we are to relate this to the idea of Way in the Ancient Chinese Philosophy, such moral ideas of my friend is different from that of the Way. Because although the Way signifies an idea of a moral that guides the people on what they ought do, it shall not be isolated to one's human relations, for it's primary goal is the harmony of the humanity, and not of any other "idea" or "virtue" of who-knows-what-it-is that is not of human concern. In the case of my friend, what he instilled was the idea of his belief, and not the idea of my value to him. Thus, is contrary to that of the Way, for the Way, or the "Tao", is not merely moral in essence, but also concerns about the human beings, especially their relation to their fellow human beings.