Sublime

Taoism is a way of liberation, which never comes by means of revolution, since it is notorious that most revolutions establish worse tyrannies than they destroy. To be free from convention is not to spurn it but not to be deceived by it. It is to be able to use it as an instrument instead of being used by it.

Lao-tzu gives the following description of Tao in his celebrated Tao Teh Ching:3 There is something formless yet complete That existed before heaven and earth. How still! how empty! Dependent on nothing, unchanging, All pervading, unfailing. One may think of it as the mother of all things under heaven. I do not know its name, But I call it “Meaning

“In ancient times, contracts were divided in two. In the state of Ch’u, the creditor kept the left half, and Lao-tzu was from Ch

Chuang Tze was one of Taoism’s strongest advocates of wu-wei, which he defined as ‘getting things done by doing nothing’.

WANG AN-SHIH says, “Those concerned with taxes cannot avoid making claims on others and thus cannot prevent disputes. This is why they lack virtue.

HSUAN-TSUNG says, “Thirty spokes converging on a hub demonstrates that less is the ancestor of more.