How would you interpret them? What is Lao Tzu trying to teach about the Tao, life, death, or how we should act in this world? Do you agree with the teaching? Why or why not?
“Always without desire we must be found, If its deep mystery we would sound; But if desire always within us be, Its outer fringe is all that we shall see” (Tao Te Ching, Stanza 1).
“The highest excellence is like (that of) water. The excellence of water appears in its benefiting all things, and in its occupying, without striving (to the contrary), the low place which all men dislike. Hence (its way) is near to (that of) the Tao” (Tao Te Ching, Stanza 8).
