Chapter Fourteen is an amazing bit of text. Lao Tsu has again woven a beautiful picture of the ineffable, “An unbroken thread beyond description.” Somehow, through poetry, Lao Tsu has straddled the gulf that separates the Parmenidean block universe and the Heracliltean river of fire.
Stay with the ancient Tao,
Move with the present.
For human minds, bound to time, the Tao is most fully realized in the eternal Now. “Move with the present.” The Now that always has been. There is no better time to live than the present moment. This is the essence of practice.
