Tao Te Ching Part Twenty One 

“The greatest Virtue is to follow Tao and Tao alone.”

We tend to complicate the Tao, we can’t believe how simple it actually is. To stick to the profundity of the way is hard because we tend to use the wrong tool for the job, the thinking mind that seeks to define rather than our consciousness that connects all things.

“The Tao is elusive and intangible.
Oh, it is intangible and elusive, and yet within is image.
Oh, it is elusive and intangible, and yet within is form.
Oh, it is dim and dark, and yet within is essence.”

Within the infinite is the definite, containing both image and form, it’s elusive because it’s the creator of everything including our body and mind.

“This essence is very real, and therein lies faith.
From the very beginning until now its name has never been forgotten.
Thus I perceive the creation.
How do I know the ways of creation?
Because of this.”

We know the essence is real because nothing could exist without it, it’s had many names and is often described as a god we can feel and experience its qualities even if we can’t define them. The ways of creation, the form from the formless is all around us and evidence in itself.