It is different because it's only true teacher is nature itself.even though we have books passd on to us that attempt to show us the Way ,it is an inside job. All the books and teachers in the world can share their illumination, I kind of like the idea that the ancients didn't tell anyone about it, I don't think one who has become enlightened would need to fix or help anyone else, they would accept that everything is happening exactly as it is supposed to happen. Non action , to me means just that, let people,places and things happen as their nature calls them to respond. Not that I have even come close to doing it. I have not gotten into the religiouis concept of taoism, I have found all religions set themselves up to control and manipulate, the mind and body. Taoism as I see it philosophically sets one free to explore beyond heaven and earth, which I see as strawdogs just like you and myself. So we bounce between the two Sometimes in heaven sometimes rooted in the mud. This is normal for us as we seek to let go of all attactments and desires...............which brings on a seperation depression.....individually...I beleive we all live in our own universe, that we are creating as each of us percieves it. Why did Lao Tzu start off with the eternal Tao was unexpressible, then go on to express his comprehensions of what it was. Illuminating, interesting, still limited because of all the words. yet not truly enlightening. I have recently been thinking that Jesus and Buddha were really not enlightened beings, or we would never have even heard about them.
