nism believes that by following these characteristics and this path they with create harmony in civilization and with Heaven. Taoism also has a problem, path, and a solution. Taoists believe that the problem is that people are not empty, which does not allow them to be in harmony with nature. Their minds are not empty and accepting of other things. Taoists do not trust words; they believe that words are problematic. Once a word is used to define something it closes all opinions of thought. A common idea in Taoism is; who is to say what is right and what is wrong. The wise man makes room in his mind for both the acceptable and the unacceptable, for what the people consider right and also what the people consider wrong (Burke 138). Taoists also find many problems with rules. They feel that rules are as problematic as words are. The more rules a society has, the more rules there are to brake. Then the solution is emptying the mind and allowing many ideas to come and go. This concept is known as Tao. To respond properly to Nature we must give up all conventional value judgments, abandon all our usual likes and dislikes, and simply accept what Nature gives us (Burke 137). The path one must take in Taoism is that of wu wei, inactive action. Wu wei is action that follows the way of Tao. Tao is an element that exists throughout the world. It is an element that exists in all things and it is also a way of understanding of life. There is no good and there is no bad in Tao. Taoists believe that good things come from bad things, and that bad things come from good things. They see the unity of all things. Things can achieve success, not in spite of their limits, but because of them (Burke 136). Because a person stays empty, that person is open to accepting the natural structure of life. He or she has no predetermined ideas, therefore they do not argue with what occurs. There is a thing inherent and natural, which exists ...
