Tao Te Ching: Chapter #14

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Look, and it can't be seen.
Listen, and it can't be heard.
Reach, and it can't be grasped.

The Tao is beyond what's perceptible by all the senses.

Above, it isn't bright.
Below, it isn't dark.

It's not defined by duality (chapter 2).

Seamless, unnamable,
it returns to the realm of nothing.

It's describable as an undefied whole (chapter 4) and unnamed (chapter 1). The realm of nothing, probably refers to the state before the creation, making it infinitely capable of taking on any form ( filled with infinite possibilities).

Form that includes all forms,
image without an image,
subtle, beyond all conception.

The Tao is the source for every visible form; it contains it all. It's too profound to be grasped by the intellect.

Approach it and there is no beginning;
follow it and there is no end.

There is no point in time or space where it began, and no point where it will end (chapter 7).

You can't know it, but you can be it,
at ease in your own life.

As said, it's beyond all conceptualisation; it's not something to be figured out through logic or knowledge. It is only something to be experienced.  

Just realize where you come from:
this is the essence of wisdom.

At first, I thought it is referring to something like the inscription on the temple of Apollo in Delphi, "Know thyself", then I realised it is referring to the fact that we all come from the Tao, we are naturally connected to it. In the end, I came to the conclusion that it is really asking to know ourselves.


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