The Tao cannot be objectively recognised or seen, which means that to be ‘Tao’ (among other things) is to be invisible.

A Taoist, generally, will be the one carrying out her everyday affairs in a light and careful way. She may laugh, cry, scream, joke, question, accuse like everyone else, but it will be done “as one should cook a small fish”; in just the right doses - no less and no more.

To be invisible, in the ‘Tao’ sense, means to ‘tread lightly on the Earth’; with one’s opinions, one’s demands, one’s daily chores and practices, and even physically with one’s feet.

A Taoist might not not always be soft and ‘barefooted’, but it will often appear as if she is.

When she dies (which she will, at an ordinary age, like all others), there will be few burdens lifted and even fewer overwhelming compliments for the corpse.

It will be clear that she’s touched many in her own ordinary ways, but not enough to drastically change the course of things, nor to have caused significant issues or dramas with others either.

Imagine a brown leaf falling in Autumn. This is the demise of a Taoist - soft and ‘just at the right time’.

As Nature intended, some might even say; though this has little to do with the ‘natural world’ of flowers, fields and trees etc, as many believe it is.

Human Nature , much like the Tao, has it’s own peculiar tendency towards Death. Humans innately search for Death in everything; a Taoist just doesn’t get in her own way…

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