Contentedness.

Are you content?
If not, why not?
You could be!

The ability to be content is crucial to contentedness.
Without the ability, there can be no result.

A champion high-jumper didn't start out being one.
He practiced, hard and often, towards his goal.
Higher and higher. With more and more ease.
Until he was what he wished to be.

Are you someone who can be content?
If you're not, you will never be.

Taoism is: Contentedness.
Taoism is not: The appearance of content.

Non-Comparison.

Want to feel better?
Stop comparing this to that, now to then, what is, to what could be.
Stop wanting to feel better.
And you will.

As long as you are not looking forward, or back, you will not be comparing, and thus feeling disappointed.
Stop your judging, and everything will have its value. The value of something exists solely in your belief in the value of that something. Do you value the moment you are presently inhabiting? Or are you comparing it to a hypothetical better moment? One you remember, or one you would prefer?

Set comparisons aside. What use are they?
Do your best in the present moment, and your present moment becomes the best moment possible.
There will be other moments, as there have been other moments.
All moments led to this moment.
This moment leads to all others.
But for now:
This is the only moment you may live.

Give it your best!

Taoism is: Non-comparison.
Taoism is not: Comparing the one, to the other.

Not Rejection.

Taoism can be reduced to its simplest premise: 'It is what it is'.
Seeing life in this way, is to see it for what it is, and nothing more, or less.
The mind may judge a thing as 'good', or as 'bad'.
Suspend the mind, and the thing becomes what it always was: what it is.
Things, events, situations, experiences: all are what they are.
The mind rejects anything it decides is 'bad', and it does this frequently.
Thus it isolates itself from life. Separate and apart.
Put the mind to bed, and life becomes a magical, mystical event, and one that can be fully lived.

Taoism is: Non-rejection of any facet of existence.
Taoism is not: Rejection of the 'uncomfortable', the 'inconvenient', the 'bad'.

Not Wisdom.

Wisdom is what you can get, when you couldn't get what you really wanted.
It isn't something that waits for you to find it.
It isn't, in fact, anything at all.
Tasteless, odorless, colorless, formless. What is it, anyway?
An accident that may befall even the most careful.
Accidents may sometimes be beneficial.
Taoism is: wisdomless.
Taoism is not: a search for wisdom.

Not Happiness.

Or, rather: pretending to be happy.
A portrayal of happiness, when such a state does not, exist, subverts happiness.
Portraying the appearance of happiness, then passing judgement on the required happiness-level of others, does not promote happiness.
Taoism is: neither happy, nor unhappy. It is whatever it is, whenever it is.
Taoism is not: happiness, or the appearance of it.

Not Equality.

We are - almost without exception - not equal, whatever "equality" means.
"We" refers to the still-living. Thus we are all equal in terms of possessing life.
Other than that, there is nothing "equal" about any of us.
This is so blindingly obvious, that nobody notices.
Like The Meaning Of Life: So simple that surely, it can not be what it actually is: To Live It.
Taoism is: being true to whatever we discover we are. Utterly unique, while being a part-of the universal whole.
Taoism is not: a commitment to the "equality of all people".

Not Toeism.

One may become obsessed with studying one's toes, and this is the nature of toeism.
But one's toe is only a small part of the whole.
One must see oneself as a whole. And the whole is not just oneself, but one's life within the whole cosmos. And if you expected to find wisdom here, then you might. But you'll have to sift through the zany humour, to find it.
Taoism is: the rejection of toeism.
Taoism is not: toeism.