What is Tao?
Least effort, maximum result.
Isnt this the ideal?
Least input, maximum output.
You would want to have a car which uses no fuel, yet can drive great distance.
You would want to spend very little money, yet earn very much.
You would want to buy at zero cost, yet sell at great price.
The military would love to have an aircraft which uses no fuel and can fly forever.
The buisness would love to reduce cost and increase output, so that it can profit more.
"Least input, maximum output" is the ideal state of things, and you are supposed to move towards it.
Whats next? What else is Tao?
Tao is constant. It does not exhaust.
What does it mean? It means Tao doesnt stop, and doesnt stop moving towards its goal.
Lets say you were driving a car, and suddenly, it ran out of fuel. It exhausted.
Your car is then not constant in reaching its destination. It exhausted.
One can avoid exhausting in three ways. By reducing input, or by increasing output, or by changing output.
Lets say that instead of traveling a long distance, you instead chose to travel shorter distance. Now your car wont exhaust and wont run out of fuel, because its input is equal to its output. Thus, by changing desired output, your car wont exhaust.
Maybe instead of this, you decided to put more fuel in your car, so it can reach its destination without exhausting. So you increased input and with it, the output, and now your car wont exhaust.
Or maybe somehow, you made your car use less fuel, so it can reach its destination without exhausting. So you reduced input per output, and thus your car wont exhaust.
This is Tao. Tao is most simple, yet not even the smartest person on Earth can understand it.
What else is Tao?
Tao does not compete, yet it defeats all competition and defeats all opponents.
"How is this possible?" - They ask.
What is the goal of competition?
The goal of competition is to eliminate all opponents.
Tao says "I dont have opponents. I have no enemies.".
Thus, Tao: He who has no enemies, cannot be defeated by any enemy.
He who has no opponents has already eliminated all opponents. He has no opponents. He has no competition. He has defeated all competition. He destroyed all his enemies by simply ceasing to consider them enemies.
Strongest is the one who destroys all enemies.
Destroying all enemies means you have no enemies anymore.
Tao doesnt consider anyone an enemy, thus Tao has no enemies. Tao has destroyed all its enemies before the fight even began.
Such is Tao. Simple, yet impossible to understand.
Tao is like water. It doesnt crush obstacles. Water has no obstacles, thus nothing can stop it.
Water has destroyed all obstacles, because it doesnt consider anything as its obstacle. If water is stopped by a rock, it is not stopped but will go around it because the rock is not its obstacle. By simply changing path and goal, water turns obstacle into non-obstacle. Such is Tao.
Tao fights like there is no enemies because Tao has no enemies, thus no enemy can defeat it because no enemy exists because no one is the enemy.
Thus, we can destroy all enemies by not considering them enemies anymore.
We can destroy all obstacles by not considering them obstacles anymore.
Water doesnt actually have obstacles.
Its the humans who think "water would have gone the other path if it wasnt for this obstacle".
But water thinks "I have no obstacles, because I chose exactly this path which has no obstacles.".
Such is Tao. The path of least input, maximum output. The best path is the one which has no obstacles. The best path is the one which requires least effort to get to destination. The best destination is the one which has path of least effort and least obstacles.
The best path is Tao, and those who travel it have no enemies, have no obstacles, use least effort and achieve greatest result.
