Lao Tzu

In the five verses shared of Lao Tzu, all said the unsayable. Tzu was very flat out as to how he felt about language. Verse fifty-six stated, “Those who know do not talk. Those who talk do not know.” His attitude is that language is best expressed when nothing is said at all. Thoughts and knowing rather than speaking should be the language of man. Tzu thinks one should endeavor to do nothing, meaning not to literally do nothing, but to discover and follow the natural forces -- to follow and shape the flow of events and not to battle oneself against the natural order of th...