A Tao Te Ching Gem About Where to Mine for Life’s Gold
Look inside, not outside.
I believe the Tao Te Ching is the wisest book ever written. Thought to be written in China by Lao Tzu some 2,500 years ago, the Tao is a guidebook on how to live life.
What does Lao Tzu mean by the Tao? Here’s the definition given in the Merriam-Webster dictionary:
“The unconditional and unknowable source and guiding principle of all reality.”
One could say that God and the Tao are interchangeable. Or the Tao and nature. Or this: The Tao is what existed before the Big Bang occurred 13.8 billion years ago.
The passage I’m writing about today is chapter 33. This is it:
“Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom.
Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.”
What Lao Tzu is saying here is that the riches of life are found inside us.
When I come across wisdom like this that was imparted so long ago and that resonates with me, you know what I do? I lean in. And I listen.
Putting chapter 33 into action
What would listening to this Tao nugget entail for us?
