Best of Taoism – Invisible, Inaudible and Intangible

What cannot be seen, is called invisible. What cannot be heard, is called inaudible. What cannot be touched, is called intangible.

That which is invisible, inaudible and intangible is one. You cannot differentiate one invisible, inaudible, intangible thing from another; there is perfect unity in invisibility, inaudibility and intangibility.

Nor can you say that above or below invisibility, inaudibility and intangibility is visibility, audibility and tangibility.

This oneness can never be named. It both is, and is not; it exists, and it does not exist. It is the form of the unformed; it is the image of no image.

It is the unthinkable thought. You may face it, yet it cannot be faced. You may follow it, but it has no end.

Hold fast to the Way that people of old times followed, in order to live in the present. If you remember the times of antiquity, you hold the thread of now.