Tao Te Ching, 34

The Great Tao flows everywhere.

It may go left or right.

All things depend on it for life, and it does not turn away from them.

It accomplishes its task, but does not claim credit for it.

It clothes and feeds all things but does not claim to be master over them.

Always without desires, it may be called The Small.

All things come to it and it does not master them; it may be called The Great. (Tao Te Ching, 34)

Today, I would try to interpret the above mentioned text from the topic "The Reality of Tao".

In it, it is said that the everything depends on the Tao. It is said to be the core thing of all. Despite the thing to be the core of everything, it is left unnoticeable. The Tao is still unknown to the people.

If there is one characteristic of the Tao that the text gives us that is the humble beingness of the Tao despite the accomplishment it has achieved. In the text, it had proven that the Tao does not claim credits over something and does not claim to be master over them. The fact that the Tao is still unknown despite the greatness proves its humble state.

The Tao may be everywhere but it does not boast itself. It waits its right time to reveal itself and when it does, it does not claim to be something great, just the Tao, the ideal Tao.