Taoism Does Not Escape This Problem

Taoism does not escape this problem, it deals with it. What is highly virtuous is a virtue that is not conscious of itself as virtue. So in this way we love to see a child dancing all by itself, lost in the dance and not performing for an audience. But then soon we know when parents notice how beautifully a child dances and they all approve of it and say to this child, dance for us. That begins to lose this power. It puts on airs, it knows it's noticed. And we don't like that. You say, that's affectation, that's showing off, that's phony. We want you to do are to dance as if you had