Comic Genius

Teach with humour and grace

Good students of Laozi's way had to work hard, but they followed it. Average students on the way, some remembered, some forgot. Bad students laughed at it, but a way you can't laugh at isn't worth studying, so this was how Laozi made fun of it.

Observing it obscures it. Proving it refutes it. Clarifying it confounds it. Praising its power degrades it. Preaching defiles it. Promoting its power depletes it. Celebrating its power demeans it. Believing denies it.

A school with no lessons, a method too subtle to learn, a lecture too faint to hear, a metaphor with no meaning, Laozi's way is a riddle with no answer, and it's only as convincing as it is a good sport.