The differences between Lao-tzu and Confucius. If you want to survive, become useless, unnecessary to everyone. Act through inaction. And what is the Tao? It is impossible to say, its essence is vagueness and inexpressibility. However, how can you know how to serve gods if you do not know how to serve people? And until you know about the living how can you presume to know about the dead? 

Can Taoism be applied politically? What would a society, a culture, a human environment look like were the principles of Taoism practiced by the state? Would the state exist?

I am troubled by our politics and waver between intense concern and surrender, between participation and absence, between appreciation and disdain.

I read a poem a day, and recommend the practice.