Cosmo

If everything is ten thousands, then over 9000 is pretty close

To people who are less philosophically minded personifications of concepts often works better for them. Thats why you get a God for every concept in many Asian religions.

Lao Tzu pretty much gave up on humans working together and gtfo of China. Make no mistake, these are the descendents of Mozi, the exact opposite to the will to perform rites.

It sure is an interesting approach to taoism, eh?

If youre trying to control youre only going to lose.

I imagine all is verbs.

The 1st and 2nd thing are the same. And so maybe the third. Bah. Zhaungzi would nod to all of those.

It all means the same thing. Different words for the same thing. Tao is no more accurate than God. They are both inaccurate. Because they can both be spoken of

Feng shui

Knowledge is infinite and we are finite. Pursueing the unlimited with the limited is foolish.

The subjectivity of what is inside of us.

Something that is useful is something that gets used. Something that is useless is something that does not. Usefulness and uselessness are the same thing.

This seems to be jumping around a few different ideas. Will and Divine were not necessarily linked in my mind. But, the way you phrased, I would answer: If the manifestation of the will knows the will, acts by the will, and becomes one with the will, then no the manifestation would not be "divine". It would not be "the will". It would simply be in accordance with "the Divine" or "the will".

A manifestation of a will and a will are not the same.

Sansara is a mental process. The constant process of thought. Never ending. You are forever trapped. For the Hindu's this manifests itself in the belief of rebirth. Englightenment is liberation from this process. How to get there varies person to person and belief to belief. But since you are on Tao Bums.com, I would read chapter 2 of the Chuang Tzu. If you are willing to look beyond Taoism, read the Bhagavad Gita. Look up Karma yoga. Etc.