Opposites

"Act without acting
Serve without serving
Taste without tasting" (Lao-Tzu 63)
There are opposites to everything in life and this is one aspect that I find completely interesting. That you can find the definition of one thing by analyzing its opposite. There is never one true clear definition because it is always built off of something else. This is something that Lao-Tzu took advantage of, and that is still apparent today. You can pick up a dictionary and every word that is defined is defined based off of another definition. Where is the starting point or the first piece of this building block? Is there one word that all others are built off of? This is what I thought when looking at the way that La-Tzu makes his statements. He utilizes opposites to clearly convey the other half. This reveals the fact that when one aspect of life is understand, so is its opposite. So there is no good, without evil. No success without failure and so on. One aspect of life is therefore revealed by the understanding of another.