For no particular reason I found myself this afternoon looking at Youtube clips having to do with "Tao."  There were several that had people confidently expounding on this or that aspect of the elusive concept – and I found myself repelled.  How can one be confident about the impossible-to-capture-in-words notion of Tao?  Indeed, today I was doing something similar: sitting with my students, talking about the Tao Te Ching, trying to understand Tao.  There were moments when I probably lapsed into the role of confident sounding authority.  But every so often I tried to stop and follow their questions.  I did not have a set class plan but only the sensibility of responding to the moment as questions arose.  It is a conundrum: how to teach Tao?  How to write about it?  I do these things just about every day, but to keep in the spirit of Taoism I have to stop and question all that I am "doing" and follow where Tao is leading….

        Maybe that’s why I liked this Youtube clip the best: