Sages do not know the answer, but they proceed to teach without answering anyways

[charlie cho]

A quote from Chuang Tzu.... wow! 

Forgive my translation of the Chinese piece. 

"The knower does not know how to speak. The one who speaks does not know. Therefore, the sage tries to teach without speech. The way is not something that we can give, and goodness is not something that comes from the outside. An act of benevolence is something all too human. Loyalty is something of destruction. Righteousness is something similar to destruction. Manners are for fakers. In other words, only when you have destroyed your way to the Tao have you finally added yourself the values of benevolence, then comes loyalty, and then righteousness, and manners. Rites, rituals, and mannerisms are simply a caricature of the men and women of the way, however! They are the beginners of confusion. A real man of the way simply subtracts. Everyday and night he discards and discards until he finds himself accomplished in having the state of "no intentions", the "no way".

 

Everything is one. Consider that people think of beautiful things as special, while ugly things as filled with stench. But can't you see that which stinks will soon become special, while the special will decay and stink. In conclusion, there is a saying 'the whole realm is nothing but a giant ball of energy', and like this, the sage thinks in the way.