Dear Tao Te Ching.

Tao Te Ching is revealing its religious side of it. Its strong characteristic of seeking for a specific superiority. We can clearly see this from chapter 21, “The greatest Virtue is to follow Tao and Tao alone.” In the Bible it is God, in Bhagavad-Gita it is Lord Krishna. Why do men seek for a specific superior existence? Why can’t they just do their best at all times? Is it because one can be more motivated if there is a specific goal in front of us? Or do the authors of these books write about such existence to make the readers more obedient? (Whether or not they exist or not)

Well, another question came up to my mind after reading Chapter 15, “Not seeking fulfillment, they are not swayed by desire for change.” But don’t you call ‘desire to change’ when you are seeking for this perfect Tao? Isn’t ‘desire’ the fuel to take an action of being detached? Or does this mean that in order to be ‘detached’ one needs to cut him self apart with any kind of desire? Personally, I think that’s not possible. As I said before, by trying to be like Tao you already have a desire. It may not be the same desire as wanting a material or wanting a love. But it is a boiling emotion.

Finally, I would like to share a line that made me think, which is from chapter 26, “To be restless is to lose one’s control.” This means, that in order to be in a ‘rest’ one needs to have a control of one’s self. Right? If that is true, I can interpreter that self-control is the way to become calmed. I should start doing this.