baqqrih
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I was going to type a large summary of my thoughts on this for you, but I then realized it would be a futile effort to do so in comparison to just sharing with you a far better and more convenient explanation (that shares words of a better capability than mine would in explaining these ideas) in its own comparison of Taoism to Christianity. Here's a PDF file to a book written by an Orthodox monk, the book known as "Christ the Eternal Tao", which proposes that the Tao Te Ching, as a pre-Christian text, served as a mystical explanation of the path to the Godhead, who is Christ, even as Lao Tzu did not know of Christ in his time. You aren't going to have to read the whole entire thing to understand the thought process of connecting Lao Tzu's intuition to Christ's doctrine, of his mindfulness and philosophy, but the first few introductory chapters of explanation may be enough for you to understand my meaning. If you're still left without a full understanding after reading some of it, I can write my own summary, but my mind is simply tuckered out at the moment from a long day, so it's more efficient that I transmit the ideas by giving you material to read on them, instead.Elaborate.