Beyond positive and negative, what is Reality?

Different Chinese philosophers, writing probably in 5-4 centuries B.C., presented some major ideas and a way of life that are nowadays known under the name of Taoism, the way of correspondence between man and the tendency or the course of natural world.

Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.

They are enlightened who join in this play knowing it as play, for people suffer only because they take as serious what the gods made for fun.

...mysticism and empiricism go together in opposition to scholasticism...they base themselves on the non-linear world of experience rather than the linear world of letters.

This is the real secret of life -- to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.

What the devil is the point of surviving, going on living, when it's a drag? But you see, that's what people do.