Simplicity

Tao Te Ching, is it a guide book? or maybe the truth, or simply suggestions? "The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao" P.3 But what is this Tao that you talk about? To find your answer you would've had to read the introduction where it says it is the "way or path". But according to who? What way, what path? These are all questions that the reader must ask himself in order to understand the Tao Te Ching. I have concluded that it is a gathering of reflections about life but made into something so short that it can be interperated in different ways. (Like the short short stories we see in class)

The only detail that tells us how to, is the naming of God. Life and living are linked to God. I don't think that God should be named in Tao Te Ching beacuse by doing so there is a subliminal suggestion that god is fundimental for living. We are bringing different religions into the Tao. What about the other religions? What happenes with their different names for the one we call God? I think we should call it a force, or energy or something religion neutral.

I'm not sure who's quote this is but I've had it in mind for a while now, "Before God, all men were created equal." By this meaning that when we created the concept of God or better yet said the term we created a power for ourselves over the others because we (catholics) are majority. Since then people have been playing God. Belittleing people because of their race, beliefs, stports, sexual preferance, countries etc.

Going back tho the original idea of the Tao Te Ching.
A good door need no lock,
Yet no one can open it. (Pg.29)

Simplicity is key in fulfilling the "Tao"

What is a good man?
A teacher of a bad man.
What is a bad man?
A good man's charge. (Pg.29)

This book is full of fallacies . Most of them don't have good conclusions. This is the interpretation part. Overal, I think that the Tao Te Chin talks about the needs not the wants. Simplicity.