The Tao, the Source of all things

What Tao plants cannot be plucked.

What Tao clasps cannot slip.

By its overture alone can one generation after another carry on the ancestral sacrifice.

Apply it to yourself and by its power.you will be freed from dross.

Appy it to your household and your household shall have abudance.

Apply it to the village, and the village will will be made secure.

Apply it to the kingdom and the kingdom shall thereby be made to flourish.

Apply it to the empire and the empire shall thereby be extended.”

The teaching is simple but exacting. What is realized within does not remain contained. It orders the field around it. The individual life, the relationships it touches, the structures it participates in all begin to reflect that same underlying stability.

So the question is not whether it makes sense, but whether anything else, in the end, truly does.