Taoism's Principle of Being Alive

The emptiness of one's head is the condition of seeing. When your shoes are comfortable, it is as if you weren't wearing any. If I don't know I'm there, I seem to be missing everything. And this is simultaneously a blessing and a curse. Taoism does not escape this problem. So we get back to this fundamental verse about the nature of de. What is highly virtuous is a virtue that is not conscious of itself as virtue. The moment it's conscious of itselfas such you see, it fails. In this way we love to see a child dancing all by itself, lost in the dance and not performing for an audience.