Chapter 77, Day 5

This chapter is about “The Way of Heaven” or the Dao. It explains how the way of Heaven is all about balance. “It takes from what has excess; It augments what is deficient” (Laozi 197), the way of heaven does not want one to live in excess, it wants one to work hard for what he obtains. Laozi believes that the more information one has the less Dao and intuition one uses for things and events (Chinese Political Philosophy Pre-Qin Philosophy 47). The Way of Heaven is being compared to The Way of Humans, it says that it is not like the Way of Heaven because instead of giving the excess to the…