Being a Taoist means to be a hypocrite. The I Ching or ‘Book of Changes’ is based predominantly on this idea.

In Chinese, the word ‘Cowardice’ is comprised of two kanjis: ‘Meaning’ and ‘Mind’.

Essentially, to have a fixed idea or story, and to hold onto that for longer than is necessary, is to be a ‘coward’.

Bravery or courage is to defy one’s own beliefs; to prove one’s own foolishness; to constantly adopt a beginner’s mindset and question everything always and forever more.

Even this very statement should be taken ‘with a pinch of salt’, improved upon or even completely tarnished when the time is right.

Love itself, it seems, is the absence of meaning. It is the perfect void, where the senses and one’s unarguable connection to the universe, through another human person, have overtaken all notion of thought, rationality or even choice.

In short, Love is the Tao, and Tao is pure contradiction where nothing makes any clear logical sense.

The pure unknown.

Stepping forwards into this unknown is ‘the way’ of Tao. It’s an unavoidable choice and yet we still have to make it.

Fear, confusion and ‘cowardice’ disappear the very moment that their meanings have been lost.

Then there are no more words except those of silence and poetry.

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