Comic Genius

Teach with humour and grace

Good students of Laozi's way worked hard, but they followed it. Of the average students, some remembered, some forgot. Bad students laughed at it.

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 square with no corners, a lesson learned too late, 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.