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>Lao-tse’s position was not that truth was incommunicable, or that words were completely useless (otherwise he would never have written his book), but rather that unless words are supplemented essentially by communication through the trans- onscious mind, no true understanding or enlightenment will develop, nor will the highest truths be understood. His later Ch’an and Zen followers in intellectualistic arrogance often derided words and language completely, revealing their self-contradiction in their voluminous writings and incessant speaking about what Zen “really means.”’

>Lao-tse specifically mentions a Tao that can be named which is efficacious in nature as well as one that cannot be named and which is even more efficacious, but which also can be understood by use of unconscious and transconscious processes of the mind, which are independent of the ordinary discursive use of words.

That man is good who creates good. Creation of good is the improvement of the future. One can do good to one's fellow in order to better his existence. It is possible for entire nations to be uplifted by heroic achievement. It is possible to introduce into life most useful discoveries, which must transform the future. Finally, it is possible to improve the thinking of a nation; and in this will be a synthesis of good. How beautiful is thought-creativeness which is not directed toward evil! When a people apprehend all the evil of condemnation, it opens new gates to the future. So much time is thus freed for cognition, for the art of thinking, for the creation of true good; and in these the best fires of the heart are kindled. Such fires are not kindled in evil. Such good will preserve health and to a large extent purify the atmosphere. It is absurd to think that good is an abstraction or a personal merit. It is the salvation of the future, for without it there is no affirmation of ascent. Thus each thought of good is already an arrow of Light. Somewhere it has already exterminated disunity, and any disunity, in malice, is a lapse into chaos. Therefore teach to think about good.