The opposites, they'll never stop! These chapters actually mention the yin and yang which I personally wasn't expecting. What seemed strange to me is how a symbol that has become so big is mentioned once and so casually in the book that it symbolizes. I guess people felt like milking that line dry. Or maybe I'm just missing the big picture. Moving on, the Tao is described as this big incomprehensible thing that spawned everything but does not control them. It just leaves them out there to find their own way to make it back. But the way he puts it is that the Tao is not their lord which brings me to the point where I realize: this is like the only "creator" that does not control its creations. Quite original I must say.
What I found most interesting is "A truly good man is not aware of his goodness, and is therefore good. A foolish man tries to be good, and is therefore not good. A truly good man does nothing, yet leaves nothing undone. A foolish man is always doing, yet much remains to be done."(38) This made me think: people do good trying to be good themselves but people who are good do actions not caring if it's good because they already are. Or something among those lines. This book gets more confusing by the minute.
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