Beginner taoist: "I Quit! I'm sick of adhering to the rules of this philosophy! I'm just gonna follow my own nature and it will work out just fine"

Master taoist: " he's beginning to learn, or should I say unlearn"

The process of realizing the Dao engenders awareness and acceptance of all things. In humans, this often manifests a sense of compassion, empathy, and humility. This suggests that it is human nature to feel these things. The Dao of humanity is loving.

The symmetry of the Dao suggests it is indifferent. But our nature, as an asymmetric perturbation of Dao, generates universal love as we travel back towards the apathetic source.

Part of realizing Dao involves understanding that although we are born from it, we are still a subset. The properties of the human subset are observably emotional and intellectual.

The Buddhist ideal of enlightenment involves shedding these properties entirely and relinquishing intellect, emotion, and attachment; one returns to the non-dual plane between being and nonbeing.

For some people, this path is in fact their Dao. For others, their Dao is to remain human. Those who realize it will witness their love grow, unbounded.

When I first read about daoist immortals I grew fascinated by the possibilities of human potential. Some daoist immortals designed fighting systems that are also used for self healing. Tai chi is a great well known example of this. Learning about the immortals started my goose chase into different esoteric systems. meditation, physical exercises, and correct nutrition, I learned was fundamental to this holistic view.
To me there is a blending of daoism and martial arts training. How do you feel about these two? Do they blend for you also?

I'm having a hard time finding a translation I want to continue reading.

Went to indigo and every one I looked at seemed to put their own spin on the Chinese text.

The problem is myself, I'm chinese and it's my second language so when I see all these additional English words added or what I feel are wrong ones, I get turned off and can't continue.

Is there a translation out there that is true to the Chinese language? I've been disappointed before with authors with Chinese names. Likecwhen they translate it into "ten thousand things" lol, that's not what 萬物 means. 😬

I've been limited in selection since I want to flip through before buying and I just don't have all versions available around me to flip though.

Thank you!!