Life is a paradox, the mind requires consistency, hence the mind can never meet life. Confucius says, ‘Listen to the scripture, listen to the ancient masters, listen to tradition.’ Lao Tzu says, ‘Listen only to your own inner voice and follow it, wherever it leads. Lao Tzu loves the word ‘tao’ - the harmony of existence, the inner order. Lao Tzu says, “If you can become just like a dry leaf which has fallen from the tree you will attain to the ultimate, you will know tao.” “Tao” is his word for god. And the only way to seek it is to dissolve into the whole just like a dewdrop dissolves into the ocean and becomes it. Perhaps one can find it in the gaps between the words or between the lines but not in the words, not in the lines themselves.’ That is our search - the unknowable. Don’t forget it - because truth you will not find in the words. Remember this,’ he says ‘and then you can read my book. Lao Tzu begins his book, TAO TE CHING: ‘Truth is that which cannot be expressed. There is no need - just be in a deep let-go and float. Don’t make any effort for any change whatsoever, because the very effort to change brings tension into the mind the very effort to change brings the future into the mind the very effort to change is a denial of God because then you say: We are wiser than you, we are trying to improve upon you. The whole teaching of Lao Tzu is that there is not a single need to do anything on your part, everything has already been done for you, you simply accept it and float. You don’t push the river, you simply float with it that is what Tao is. 
He called his philosophy Tao, and Tao means simply `the way.’ We are just going to be here, so make the time as beautiful, as loving, as joyous as possible.
It was courageous of Lao Tzu, twenty-five centuries ago, to tell people that there is no goal and we are not going anywhere.
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