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If you overesteem great men,
people become powerless.
If you overvalue possessions,
people begin to steal.

The Master leads
by emptying people's minds
and filling their cores,
by weakening their ambition
and toughening their resolve.
He helps people lose everything
they know, everything they desire,
and creates confusion
in those who think that they know.

Practice not-doing,
and everything will fall into place.

-Some Taoist website.

To be absent needs is to be absent loss. It literally states, practice not-doing, and everything will fall into place. If I use a somewhat eclectic thought to Taoism and my zero theory, it seems to get interesting.

Neither being positive (+) or negative (-) means any hidden context. Meaning, being positive doesn't mean it's a good thing, being negative doesn't make it a bad thing. They could be easily interchanged and it would still have the same value.

As people we set ourselves to have psychological needs. Needs = (-). People = (+). We put our self in the Taoist definition of "disharmony."  We struggle everyday to attain our needs or balance, to achieve neutrality.

Example: I love Africa, and she does not want to be with me. I am at constant disharmony.

Need (-): Africa
People (+): Myself

Since I have yet to achieve harmony/neutrality, I am at constant action. My heart yearns to be with her and hurts when I don't do everything in my power to try to be. I stress my self and it does damage. It leaves me in sadness, anger, hate, and utter despair. This is the state of disharmony.

My depression/frustration/emotions that I feel for her could be a gauge to the strength of my pull toward her. The deeper I feel for achieving this need of being with her, the more I hurt (the greater the disharmony.)

Disharmony is also increased by resisting the pull of the two polar sides. I block myself (+) from liking her (-) even though I know she is all I want. This causes all of us a deeper pain, when we walk in a different path that our heart leaves for us.


So Taoism's answer to achieving harmony: Give up all goals, needs, and dreams.

Harmony is harmony. It doesn't matter if I figure out every perfect word to speak to her and she becomes swayed to be with me or if I give up on her and believe there is no need for love.

As the zero theory will forever tell, to be neutral is all we seek.