For Laozi, everything is simply in some form of process, still part of the lifecycle. See it as a vast family tree that leads all the way back from the Ten Thousand things, right back to the One.

Laozi's advice is not dissimilar to contemporary views that sometimes you make you yourself so busy that you don’t have time to enjoy yourself, to truly enjoy existence.

It's the exact same process of setting aside your own needs and desires in favour of others. And if they do wrong then you forgive them. You turn the other cheek. You are teaching by example.

For Laozi there is danger in too much knowledge. It can fill up the mind, and trap you into certain beliefs and actions.

Don't confuse your mind with things that don't matter. Seek the tranquility of inner peace and knowledge. Hence – the farther you travel, the less you know.

Laozi is returning to the concept of the triumph of need over want. It's vitally important to know when enough is enough.

Laozi says that we often have a flawed view of what we see, maybe because we choose to see things that way.

If you have more than you truly need, then you have more to lose. Humility and restraint are the key.

Here Laozi is suggesting that sometimes the best course of action is to do nothing.

All things stem from Dao. And everything created is connected and interdependent.