Life’s challenges are easier reconciled as one integrates these principles into one’s lives. The Tao is ‘The Way’; one should not try and ‘name it’ or ‘define it’, by doing so would confine the Tao. Lao Tzu compares desire and the freedom from desire without defining or judging; “Ever desireless, one can see the mystery. Ever desiring, one can see the manifestations…” He further illuminates with “These two spring from the same source but differ in name…” Inviting each person to immerse in the “Tao Te Ching’... however, it may resonate with the individual soul, thereby melding seamlessly into one's life journey. This is my exact experience in approaching this essay. I am so grateful to write on the “Tao Te Ching”; my original copy is over 25 years old. Sifting through the multitude of translations, written over the last 2,500 years, has been an arduous, yet rewarding excursion inward to discover a translation which resonates closest to my heart and embodies the wisdom of the Tao
Life’s challenges are easier reconciled as one integrates these principles into one’s lives. The Tao is ‘The Way’; one should not try and ‘name it’ or ‘define it’, by doing so would confine the Tao. Lao Tzu compares desire and the freedom from desire without defining or judging; “Ever desireless, one can see the mystery. Ever desiring, one can see the manifestations…” He further illuminates with “These two spring from the same source but differ in name…” Inviting each person to immerse in the “Tao Te Ching’... however, it may resonate with the individual soul, thereby melding seamlessly into one's life journey. This is my exact experience in approaching this essay. I am so grateful to write on the “Tao Te Ching”; my original copy is over 25 years old. Sifting through the multitude of translations, written over the last 2,500 years, has been an arduous, yet rewarding excursion inward to discover a translation which resonates closest to my heart and embodies the wisdom of the Tao