Perfection

I came to a conclusion: Tao Te Ching is very repetitive. Everything seems to be talking about and giving examples of two opposites that balance each other. It sometimes felt like as if I was reading the same thing over and over again, but this part caught a bit of my attention:

"Do you think you can take over the universe and improve it?
I do not believe it can be done.
The universe is sacred.
You cannot improve it.
If you try to change it, you will ruin it.
If you try to hold it, you will lose it." (Tao Te Ching 29:1)

I like this part since it's telling us that the world is perfect the way it is and that it's better to leave it intact. It's not telling us that we can't change the world: It's telling us that we shouldn't. But, that's not the only reason why I like this quote. I like it even more because I sort of realized something while reading it. I realized that the book wasn't teaching the readers what to do to have a good balance in the world (since balance is said to be a good thing in the book). Instead, I noticed that the book actually tells us that the world is already balanced and perfect the way it is and that we shouldn't do anything to change it. So, the book wasn't actually meant to teach people what to do, but rather to teach people what not to do.

Anyways, even though I thought that the book was interesting, I wouldn't entirely agree with it since I don't think that everything in the world is perfectly balanced the way it is.