Lao-Tse is a Chinese philosopher credited with philosophy behind the Tao Te Ching.

The premise of the Tao Te Ching is that there is a universal natural law called the Tao and all things in nature unfold according to it. The Tao Te Ching differs from other philosophies that attempt to grapple with the ultimate in that its central proposition is The Tao that can be trodden is not the enduring and unchanging Tao. The name that can be named is not the enduring and unchanging name. I connect distinctly to the primary premise cerebrally, e perientially, and ideologically. !ost literally, I see the impossibility of capturing the ineffable as analogous to the inability to capture in electron. "ny attempt to locate the position of an electron in space at a given moment in time will alter its location. Li#ewise any attempt to contain the ineffable loses the essence of that which was meant to be captured. $ perientially, in acting, the scene that you thin# you #now is not the scene, the play that you believe you are doing is not the play. "n actor who steps on stage already #nowing the play loo#s more li#e a robot than a breathing, feeling, human being. "s an actor, when you thin# you #now, you fail, when you #now you do not #now, you soar. %hen I can apply a given philosophy to unrelated schools of thought and my own practice, I feel more connected to its tenants. &owever, the hallmar# of a worthy philosophy is its ideological applications. I relate the ideology of the Tao to universal humanitarianism. In many countries, there is a favored theocracy and much of the political culture stems from each leaders involvement with the ideology of that religious practice. Thought it does not half to, historically, theocratic involvement has cataly'ed a lot of wars. There are some theocracies that promote love and peace, but rival ideologies have painted the idea that anyone who believes in love and peace is a na(ve child. The Tao is humanitarian in the way that its philosophy results in love, peace, respect, and allowance. The Tao advocates no belief system. It is based on un#nowables. %e cannot #now what is right and we cannot #now what is wrong. There is no need to fight for what is right when it is impossible to #now what is right. I do not feel this brings us to a moral grey area but rather to an attitude of rela ation. In the philosophy of the Tao, each human being is free to believe what they wish because what they believe is not less right or wrong than any other belief.