If you are new in China, you may find it difficult to comprehend a commond line of reasoning there.
The reasoning goes like this: Everything can be right. And yet, everything that is right is not completely right.
And you are left to figure out what exactly has been said.
While the way of reasoning is part of the Chinese culture, it can also be seen as a wisdom that will help you to truly understand the order of the universe.
Since we are limited by our knowledge and senses, whatever we think is right can be right — and for the same token, can be wrong. Similarly, what we see it to be right cannot be completely right.
Only when we are broad minded enough to tolerate chaos and ambiguity, that we are ready to be dazzled and awed — by what we know and we do not know.
“ Tao is intangible and evasive,
Although intangible and evasive, in it there is form;
Although evasive and intangible, in it there is shape.
Although obscure and dark, in it there is vitality;
Its vitality is very genuine.
Within it we can find order.” - Tao Te Ching 21
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