What Is TAO Wisdom?
TAO (้), also
known as The Way or TAO wisdom, is the ancient wisdom from
Tao Te Ching (้ๅพท็ถ) is an ancient Chinese classic on human wisdom. This unique piece of literature is one of the most translated books in human history and world literature. The book is a beautiful collection of Chinese wisdom poetry, in which the author expresses his wisdom in living life in all of its beauty and joy, as well as in all of its pain and sorrow. The language is simple and poetic, but controversial and paradoxical.
and easy to perform,
Yet no man under heaven
knows them or practices
them.”
(Tao Te Ching,
Chapter 70)
There are altogether 81 short chapters, expressed in only 5,000 words. It must be pointed out that there was no punctuation in the original text. Given that each word in the Chinese language may be capable of having multiple meanings, the text without any punctuation is intriguing because it is simple and open to various different interpretations. It is like the three blind men, touching different parts of an elephant, who try to describe what an elephant may look like.
The book is open to many different interpretations. A plausible explanation
was that Lao Tzu was very much reluctant to express his wisdom in words. As a
matter of fact, according to the legend, at that time he was at the point of
leaving