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There are things that cannot be communicated by reading alone.
I suspect that actually looking at someone (preferably while you're together in the same room) lets you understand things better.
The Dao that can be told is not the eternal Dao.
Spiritual practices are experiential; you aren't meant to just hear them, you are meant to practice them and be enlightened through lived understanding.
To be honest Tao Te Ching reads like an edgelord fanfic.
That actually makes perfect sense to me.
Curiosity and imagined reality both arise from lack of complete knowledge. These things are both illusions, which are also a lack of complete knowledge. But these are the path to greater knowledge.
The tao te ching is notorious for its wildly disparate translations and it's poetic ambiguity. As the saying goes, if you've read two translations of the tao te ching you've read two different books
Taoism: Just be.
Me: is
Taoism: Not like that
Could be death metal lyrics