Chapter 70
The TAO TE CHINGS are easy to understand and easy to practice, yet no intellect will ever grasp them, and many who try to practice them will fail. Those who do are rare and few. Because of their humility and frugality, they hide their treasure close to their hearts. The teachings are older than the world. The words have an ancestor; the practices, deeds, and works have a lord. How can you grasp their meaning? If you want to know, listen to your heart. Trust your intuition. The deepest truth is also the plainest truth and the easiest to know and to carry-out, since it is present everywhere. Yet people have so lost touch with the primal (PRIME O) truth that they no longer comprehend or practice it (O-CULT). As a result, they look for solutions in the hard and difficult (DIFFY-CULT). Blessed are those who expect NOTHING – for they will not be disappointed. The fewer persons that know the TAO, the nobler are they that follow it. Those who understand the TAO know that the words are derived from a creative and universe O principle, in accord with the one law: DO WHAT THOU WILT SHALL BE THE WHOLE OF THE LAW. LOVE IS THE LAW, LOVE UNDER WILL.