Tao principle is the purest of all kind. Tao emphasize effortlessness. A lot can be done through effort, through willingness but much more can be experience with effortlessness.

Things that can be achieved through effort will become a burden because constant effort is needed, consistent work is essential. In today’s world, you can achieve much through effort because along effort comes aggressiveness and competition. Working with effort will come to an end someday, when you are old, when you are exhausted, when you are disheartened with the result and etc.

However, what even can be obtained through effortlessness will never be a burden to you and only that is un-burden is eternal. If no effort has been made then nothing is incomplete. Have you noticed that in a dream it is always complete and satisfied? When you dream it is always to complete something that cannot be complete in the day. The reason is the mind always wanted to complete something that could not be completed in the day. Anything incomplete will provide stress to the mind.  So in order for the mind to rest, it will try hard to complete it in the dream.

Some Tao practitioners, practitioners may not be a good word, once the word practice came in, it become effort. Let’s make it simple, people who understand Tao understand life through truth, they see the truth in life. When understanding has become so difficult then meditation is recommended. Meditation will not lead you to transcendental, to the real goal. Meditation can help you to taste the real truth of life, how the life flows through you but not you who is going through life. Meditation helps you to understand that “I” does not exist and it only creates ego and problems.

By understanding that without “I”, you will then sleeps,  eats, love and live without the existing of mind. Then pressure, anxiety and burden will not exist. Then your mind is free and you are free. This is real freedom.